Re: [Quilt-dev] Refresh and hardlinks

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I know cases where people will duplicate a tree of source code using
> hardlinks, so as to save space and improve the diffing speed. But I was
> wondering which kind of work would take benefit of patch series being
> duplicated using hardlinks. The space benefit seems to be rather thin
> unless there are many many patches, and I wouldn't expect people to run
> diff of patch files on a regular basis either.

I agree with you. Somebody still did and got himself into trouble as a result. 
Quilt could have prevented that, and now it will. It's the way of least 
surprise ;)

-- Andreas.