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Re: Windows symlinks

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 26, 2008, 03:50 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding of Clearcase is that it actually loads a virtual
> filesystem driver in Windows and does all kinds of insane magic -

Just FYI, this is only the case if you're using so-called dynamic views, which require the MVFS driver, as you say. The OP said he was using snapshot views -- these don't use MVFS and instead just checkout to the OS's native filesystem.

j.
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  2. Avery PennarunJun 24, 2008
  3. Jay SoffianJun 26, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiJun 24, 2008
  5. patrick.higgins@cexp.comJun 24, 2008
  6. Avery PennarunJun 25, 2008
  7. patrick.higgins@cexp.comJun 25, 2008
  8. Andreas EricssonJun 26, 2008
  9. Robin RosenbergJun 24, 2008

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