[darcs-users] BIG Mistake

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 19:04 schrieb Tommy Pettersson:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:14:41AM -0500, Jorey Bump wrote:
> > Is it safe to  delete the corresponding (and huge) patch file, now?
>
> Yes. It is mainly left for debugging / crash recovery purposes,
> but if it is a hard link and you later pull the same patch again
> it can also be "reused" instead of being replaced with a
> space-consuming copy.

What do you mean with “if it is a hard link”?  To my knowledge, every file on 
a Unix-like file system has a hard link pointing to it, and creating hard 
links explicitly just results in a file having more than one hard link 
pointing to it.

In addition, I thought that darcs' hard link feature is just about sharing 
patch files between repositories, not reusing previously unused patch files.

> There are plans to make Pull create hard links all by itself,

Is this about pull creating hard links to the patch files in the repository 
pulled from?  I thought that darcs already does so.

> […]

Best wishes,
Wolfgang