Karl Fogel wrote:
>Branko �ibej <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. :-)
>
Heh heh. Who said they were hard links? I used the word "reference",
because every time somebody says "symlink" someone else will ask if
that's the same as a Windows shortcut. I also mentioned C pointers,
which do behave like symlinks -- they can point to something that's not
there any more. :-)
>-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.
>>
>>
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>>Brane �ibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
>>
>>
>>
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