by Howdy All!
What I am hoping for is some helpful advice in dealing with a situation of odd
yet seemingly sensible stuff.
The Sitch:
We are a software Development group writing code to run on top of a products'
operating system which happens to be a variety of UNIX. The OS is not pure -
Its been hacked to an extent by the folks
working on their stuff upstream of us. We have no source control in this and
I do not think we really should.
As this thing is a variety of UNIX, it does have a number of files like
rc.stop, rc.start, rc.EEEYYYYAAAAHHHH and rc.hate_trees. These files
all suffer from being user configurable. We get a distribution tape from there
once a month with new user files in them.
The Problem:
How are these user configurable files to be included in our source control system?
I have thought of simply running some logical linksover from thier source tree to
our source tree. We are using RCS. I got a negative reaction on this
from folks here.
As this situation must have occurred outside, could someone please tell me what they did to get this beast under control??
--dan