Does stow have support for hard links at all?
No, not at present.
If not is that an easy
thing to add in?
It probably is, although I can't spend any time on it in the foreseeable
future.
Such an option would make stow more useful on Cygwin, IMHO.
I think you're right, for the
On May 18 14:41, Andrew Schulman wrote:
Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems
don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.
So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.
Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin
Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems
don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.
So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.
Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports
creating hardlinks on NTFS
The stow package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Stow is an
installation manager for local software packages. It creates sets of
symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to a stow directory
(e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. This allows you to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The stow package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Stow is an
installation manager for local software packages. It creates sets of
symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to a stow directory
(e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files
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