On Dec 19, 2007 7:51 AM, Keith Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a patch modifying c is pulled into this repo, I would expect ../bar > > to change, too. > > I wouldn't expect that, and in fact when I just tried this with Darcs, > it pulled the patch, overwrote c, and didn't alter the contents of bar. > I infer that Darcs isn't opening the file indexed by the inode that > c points to, then overwriting its contents--it's clobbering c, opening a > new file named c, and putting the post-patch contents there. That's > what I'd expect.
Right. And that is because this is the only way to atomically update a file (under POSIX semantics). David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
