Re: Crazy 5-step plan to remove the cached pristine copy

In a message dated: 24 Mar 2003 11:37:51 EST
Greg Hudson said:

>On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:50, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Why exactly would you want to remove the cached pristine copy ?
>> Is it the disk space that's bothering you ?
>> It seems the disk space should be rather small: all unmodified files
>> can be hardlinked to their pristine copy, so disk space is only needed
>> for the few modified files.
>
>Bitkeeper supports this trick, I've heard, but it only works if you
>carefully assure that your editor modifies hard-linked files by
>replacing them. (emacs does not work this way by default.)

Just out of curiosity, how does this support work on non-UNIX based
platforms? Windows-based systems have no notion of soft- or
hard-linked files, do they?

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