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Re: Hard links on Win2k/XP

From: Branko ÄŒibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-07-23 15:17:01 CEST

Marco Scholz wrote:

>Atomic updates have "only" one advantage: it is atomic, so a crash of
>subversion would not corrupt the original file.
>
That is not an "advantage", it is *the* most important requirement for
Subversion.

>That is the advantage, and
>the price is the loss of the hard links.
>
>
Yes. You've still not told us what you're using the hard links for. I
suggested in an eariler post that there might be a different way solve
your problem. If your requirement is "I want hard links", then there
isn't; but I suspect you're using hard links as a way of solving some
other problem.

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