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Re: Subversion != your filesystem (was mv != (cp && rm))

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2001-11-28 19:20:52 CET

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> Don't know. :-)
> The design for "svn ln" is far from complete. It hasn't even been
> started yet, AFAIK.

We don't have any plans for hard-link support in the filesystem, as
far as I know, actually. It's dangerous in Subversion for the same
reasons its dangerous in a regular filesystem -- we need to prevent
cycles.

Of course, it *could* be done. There are just no plans now, since the
easiest (though not the only) way to prevent cycles is to simply avoid
operations that make them possible. :-)

-K

> >You can argue that in both cases A will link to C
> >
> Possibly.
>
> > but, then what happens
> > when cp B C && change C && cp B D && change D && rm B && commit
> >where does A point to now?
> >
> This is not a move. A would be a dangling reference in this case.
>
>
> --
> Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
>
>
>
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