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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:10:41 -0600
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On 01/14/2013 10:31 PM, Ouabache Designworks wrote:
>     Tool flows generate a ton of files. You do not want to create these files in a RCS repository because that will mean that you
> now need a way to clean out these files between runs and the repository has to be set up to ignore them so that the hand full of
> files that you are actually working on are easy to identify and won't get lost in the crowd. lndir clones an existing directory
> from a repository makes it out of  symbolic links. You run all your toolflows in the cloned workspace and nothing is every
> generated into the repository.

So that simplifies using your libraries, but what about keeping a snapshot of the
symbols and footprints as they were the day that project completed a version and made
fab data?  It sounds like you are suggesting having your project dir not under a revision control system.