Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Marc Sherman]
>
>> What if, instead of moving the format number to the top of
>> .svn/entries, you got rid of the entries file and moved the
>> pipe-separated entries content to the bottom of the .svn/format file?
>>
>
> I'd hard-link the two filenames and fall back on writing a one-line
> 'format' file. Hard links, where available, are just a tiny bit more
> efficient than symlinks. That would require
>
> -AC_CHECK_FUNCS(symlink readlink)
> +AC_CHECK_FUNCS(symlink readlink link)
>
> in configure.in, and perhaps something a little fancier on win32 since
> hard links are only available on NTFS and possibly the API to create
> one is a little more involved than link(src, dest).
>
How often do hard links survive a "cp -R"?
-- Brane
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Received on Wed Apr 12 12:24:34 2006