Never mind, I think I found a better way around this problem.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thomas Hartman <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> it would be useful for patch-tag to turn off hard linking for darcs
>> storage (in pristine.hashed, patches, and so on). can anyone suggest
>> the most straightforward way to do that?
>
> Why would it be useful?
>
> A straightforward way would be to place each repository on its own
> filesystem, to use a filesystem that doesn't support hard links
> (e.g. vfat), or to have a cron job that periodically breaks hard links,
> e.g. (untested)
>
>    find _darcs -type f -exec sed -i {} +
>
> (perl -i and GNU sed -i should do a temporary file dance, which will
> indirectly create a new inode and thus break the hard link.)
>
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