Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:17:40 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for testing] cow behaviour for hard links |
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On Wed, 10 March 2004 21:34:27 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > I like the idea!
Thanks!
> I keep many hard-linked kernel trees, and local version management is > done by "cp -rl" to make new trees and then change a few files in > those trees, compile, test etc. To prevent changes in one tree > accidentally affecting other trees, I "chmod -R a-r" all but the tree > I'm currently working on. > > Thats works quite nicely, but it'd be even nicer to not need the > "chmod", and just be confident that writes won't clobber files in > another tree by accident.
Same here, that was my main motivation. Ultimately I'd like to see a lot of SCM functionality inside regular filesystems and this is just the first step.
Jörn
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