Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:35:46 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links |
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Peter T. Breuer wrote: > "A month of sundays ago Pavel Machek wrote:" > > Actually, 40% of my disk capacity is wasted in duplicates. Why? I do > > cp -a linux linux.backup before major changes. Automagicall ways to > > get space back would be nice. (I also cp -a package ofic.package, so > > Won't vi do this automatically if you hardlink? > > > that I can diff -ur later... Hardlinks are not enough because I do not > > want to accidentaly trash ofic.) > > I think that on save, vi should do a mv foo foo.old, cp buff foo.
Emacs does it too by default. But of course I turn on backup-by-copying-when-linked because when I edit a shell script that has multiple names, I do want all instances to be updated.
Besides, editors and the only things which modify files in a source tree.
Personally I don't copy kernel source trees because the copy takes ages. So occasionally I do get confused about which set of files is the official set, and have to untar apply about 49 kernel patches to reconstruct it. That's pretty slow too :-)
-- Jamie
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