Re: [Quilt-dev] Another shell re-write of backup-files.

[Jean Delvare]

On Friday 18 March 2011 06:32:18 pm Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> Plus a few more fixes. It's behaving well for me now. I'm ready
> for stress-testing with big patch stacks.

May I ask why you keep investing time in a task which I just told
you I have _already_ accomplished?

> (...)
> Index: quilt/backup-files
> ===================================================================
> --- quilt.orig/backup-files
> +++ quilt/backup-files
> @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
>  #   pass-through mode).
>  # - Use tree-to-tree recursive cp to restore a backup (taking
> everything

Please fix your e-mail client, it is wrapping long lines, which
corrupts every patch or script you send to the list.

>  #   in the backup, ignoring the file list).
> -# - To touch files on restore, if requested, we can do a find +
>  xargs +
> -#   touch over the backup instead, prior to restoring it. [WRONG]
> +# - We don't use hard linking when restoring files, because then we
> have
> +#   to break the hard links anyway (quilt issues a noop -L
>  operation). +# - To touch restored files, we can do a copy without
>  preserving timestamps.
>  # - Added files (i.e. backups of nonexistent files) are represented
>  as a
>  #   specially named file containing an explicit list, and not as
>  #   zero-length files. This eases the implementation, and lets us
>  back @@ -209,7 +210,9 @@ B )

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Jean Delvare
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