[TxMt] Re: TM2: projects with scattered files?

[Steve King]

On 2012-02-03 10:39, jomifo wrote:
> One thing that didn't work properly though was invoking subversion commands
> on the aliased files.  It complains about the file not being in a working
> copy folder.  I think TM2 should run the svn command on the source path, not
> the path of the alias.

It might be good to have some sort of option for that, but in general 
it's not workable.  Subversion (and I assume Mercurial and Git) allows 
you to put symlinks themselves under version control.  Maybe some 
heuristic like:

     if file is symlink:
         if symlink is under version control:
             act on symlink
         else if target is under version control:
             act on target

Seems like it'd need a lot of special cases though, and possibly some 
sort of manual override as well. It's a messy work-around for something 
that used to be easy.

(Forgive me if there's something special about MacOS's aliases.  AFAIK, 
aliases are just another mechanism to implement symlink functionality 
left over from the pre-OSX days.)

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