Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 14:44:42 +0200 | From | Marko Kreen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] preserve symlinked .configs |
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:01:33PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote: > When one has several machines it is nice to keep each > machine's .config under revision control. Then, on > each machine, > > ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config > > Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and > removes your link, causing much irritation.
IMHO currect behaviour is the Right Thing. Think of 'cp -al' on trees. Patching one does not affect another, because patch() does not modify files, it creates new file. If I use your patch and have 'cp -al'-d trees which happen to have .config inside, doing 'make *config' in one tree will affect another. Thats wrong.
-- marko
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