Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:18:43 +0000 | | From | Al Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Makefile targets: tar & rpm pkgs, while using O=<dir> as non-root |
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:49:20AM +0000, Nix wrote: > Well, personally I handle patch-application in cp -al'ed trees by doing > cp -al via a script, and repatching all currently hardlinked trees > (obviously if they are very divergent some patches will fail and I'll > have to fix them up by hand). ... then you edit a file to fix a typo, and have a _nice_ day next Friday when you notice that stuff got out of sync.
> It works for me well enough to keep hardlinked branches going for in > some cases years without problems. > > (On top of that, I've sometimes considered a switch to patch(1) that > switches to truncate-and-rewrite rather than unlink-and-replace. Haven't > implemented it yet though.) > > > (And if you're using this to maintain development branches, then you > have resync and conflict-management problems *anyway*, which this makes > no worse.)
Yes, but it's easier to deal with when the number of your repositories doesn't get multiplied by factor of 20 or so... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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