[Quilt-dev] Re: Link check after pop really needed? (was: Another shell re-write of backup-files)

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Jean,

On Monday 21 March 2011 15:39:35 Jean Delvare wrote:
> So I start wondering if this check is still needed today. It could as 
> well be that the internal state representation made it required back 
> then, and no longer.

the meta-data format hasn't changed in the meantime, so it can't be that.  I 
think that it was a bug where GNU patch did a rename("f", "g") with "f" and 
"g" being hardlinks (which is defined to do nothing!), and it didn't check for 
hardlinks.  Should be fixed in GNU patch since quite some time.  I cannot 
reproduce the problem.

Thanks,
Andreas