Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Makefile targets: tar & rpm pkgs, while using O=<dir> as non-root | From | Nix <> | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:03 +0000 |
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Al Viro stated: > 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.
Your text editor is insufficiently flexible. Mine can snap hardlinks automatically when st_nlink > 1. :)
(But let's avoid editor wars. I'm sure there's a magic way vim can be coerced into doing things properly.)
What we really need is an FS that does behind-the-scenes block CoW and/or block merging anyway; then we could just cp -a the damn tree and keep the space savings.
>> (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...
Er, I don't have a factor of 20 more repositories than anyone else. (I don't have the disk space for that!)
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