source control question

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Jan 5 19:10:15 PST 2005


On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman <bob at vesterman.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so
> directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base
> assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project".
>
> But in reality, a directory could be a project, or part of a
> project, or part of many projects, or merely structural
> [...]
> I'm sure there are ways to bend things like Subversion into kind of
> behaving the way I want, but are there any systems that are actually
> designed with this concept in mind?

AFAICT, any version control system that supports 'views' or 'modules'
can do that.  You can put pretty much anything in any place you want
and then create project based hierarchies of files by pulling parts of
the repository under the project directory.

- Giorgos



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