Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:13:08 -0800 | From | George Anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Patch generation |
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Dan Aloni wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > > > > 4 kernel trees, one after make dep ; make bzImage, and all taking together > > > just 193MB, instead of about 400MB... hard links, gotta love'em. > > > > Ok, this is cool, but suppose I have the same file linked to all these > > and want to change it in all the trees, i.e. still have one file. Is > > there an editor that doesn't unlink. Or maybe cp of the edited file?? > > How would you do this? (I prefer EMACS, which likes to unlink.) > > I know mcedit doesn't unlink (but mcedit kinda sucks), I think nedit > doesn't unlink too. > > I prefer an editor that unlinks, since in most cases I don't want to > modify the source trees that I'm not working on, so diff can do what it's > supposed to do later.
Oh, I agree, but I am working on several things at once so my development trees are cascaded, usually with a kgdb patch in all of them. If I make a change to kgdb, for example, it would be nice to only have to change it once, so occasionally, I want to do it differently.
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