Re: [Quilt-dev] Refresh and hardlinks

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andreas,

[Andreas Gruenbacher]
> currently the refresh command writes directly into the existing patch
> file instead of creating a new file, which makes a difference when
> the patch is a symlink or hardlink. I think it makes more sense to
> create a new object instead, so that a refresh will work nicely with
> hardlinked patches. Are there any reasons not to change that?

Sounds sane to me, no objection - although I'd like to be told about
scenarii where hardlinked patch files are used.

> Proposed patch attached.

Not exactly related, but why do we bother handling .tgz files? I don't
quite see how a patch could be a .tgz file.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare