Troy Rollo wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:37, Mike Hearn wrote: > >>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:26:49 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: >>Oh one other thing to mention is that hard linking trees together >>like the merge script does is sort of experimental with Wine. I've tried >>it and not seen any big issues as long as you use an editor that breaks >>hard links, but if you spot wierdness related to that let me know. > > > I'm surprised to hear there are any UNIX or Linux editors that break hard > links (which I take to mean that an edit should sever the link so that the > other location keeps the old copy). > > There are many situations in which I rely on the fact that vi and vim do not > break hard links. > >
there was a discussion on this topic quite recently in the vimdev mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/35276?threaded=1
