Re: [darcs-users] optimize --relink with symbolic links?

[Erik Schnetter]

On Nov 21, 2005, at 14:34:45, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

is there a way to tell `darcs optimize --relink' to use symbolic  
links
instead of hard links?

No.  There's no way that could work.

Under some circumstances, Darcs will change the contents of a file
without changing its name.  With hard links, the link will be broken
in this case, which is The Right Thing; with soft links, there's no
way to achieve this effect.

No, darcs will never change the contents of the file.  This is a very  
important property of darcs, and it is what makes hard links safe.  A  
patch, once recorded, is unchanging forever.

Soft links would also work fine.  There is only one potential problem  
with that: if the original repo is deleted, then the soft links will  
become invalid.  The patches are lost.  This does not happen with  
hard links.  If you can live with that, then you could use soft links  
instead.

-erik

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