AntC writes: > [inode, etc] seems an easy way to keep track of files. Do other > VCS's use it? Is there some reason darcs hasn't used it before?
Sounds very delicate to me. Points that would worry me: The ambiguity of multiple links to the same file. Breaking of hard links on edit by some editors and not others. Resurrection of deleted files (whether by checking out an old version or restoring from backup). bzr (bazaar.canonical.com) does track "containers" (ie, it could know which on-disk data is the original and which the copy, and it distinguishes between remove from repo + readd under a new name from an atomic rename), but it doesn't track inodes. It has its own database and identifiers for this. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
