Re: how to make svn _follow_ symbolic links?

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Misha Aizatulin wrote:
>> Blair Zajac wrote:
> You can get the behavior you want with hard links but I don't know what
> happens during an update (whether the existing link is deleted and
> recreated or if the changes are written to the existing link and thus
> affect all other links).

We do everything with atomic renames, so it's not like we would open() the
existing file and write to it, since there's a greater chance of loss. Instead,
we write to a temporary file and rename() it. So Subversion would break the
hardlinks.

Blair

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Received on 2009-07-22 02:22:05 CEST