[darcs-devel] nolinks argument

[Eric Y. Kow]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:45:03 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > Also, would it be possible for darcs simply to detect those cases, and
> > not create the links in those cases?
> 
> The issue here is that Darcs linked files at a time when they were
> readable by Alice, but Bob changed the permissions later on.  Contrary
> to popular belief, lazy evaluation is not implemented using premonition,
> and Darcs has no way of knowing that Bob will dump Alice for Chloe
> (Damian's former girlfriend, but Damian is now with Eve) and change
> the permissions later on.

:-)

Well, I was hoping for something simple, like "only link to things I
own, because then I don't have to worry about any permissions shifting
under my feet"

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Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
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