Updating link-based work areas

By default, UNIX client users work from a link-based work area. The work area is called link-based because the files in your work area are symbolic links to the files in your Rational® Synergy database. When you edit a file in a link-based work area, the database files are updated immediately with changes. This update occurs because you are working on the files themselves, rather than on copies of them.

If you are running on the UNIX client, you can use a copy-based or a link-based work area.

If you use a tool or command in your work area that breaks symbolic links, you must sync your project to update the database objects with the work area changes.


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