Marco Scholz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.07 and I use Hard Links
>(hard links are a hidden feature of NTFS on Win2k and XP to
>create more than one directory entry for one file on the disk (something
>like
>a "cheap copy")).
>
>When I use hard links with files that are under TortoiseSVN control,
>these hard links will be deleted sometimes.
>It seems like subversion (not Tortoise) is deleting files before it
>does some operations (for example "revert") on it.
>
>
Yes, that's exactly what Subversion does. Specifically, when changing
any file under version control, it
* Creates a temporary file with the new contents, then
* Renames the temporary file, replacing the original.
We do this because the rename is atomic on most filesystems, which means
that a client crash won't leave the file contents incomplete.
>Has anybody worked with hard links and subversion ?
>
>
No, because they won't work, for the above reasons. The only answer I
have for your problem is "don't do that". I suspect that what you
actually want to achieve can be done differently.
[snip]
>Again, hard links are a OS Feature >=Win2K/XP (like symb. links on unix
>systems).
>
>
Nope, they're _not_ like symbolic links on Unix, they're like hard links
on Unix. That's why replacing a file will break the link.
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Received on Wed Jul 21 17:11:38 2004