[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] Re: darcs patch: Windows hard link support

[Eric Kow]

Simon and darcs-users:

One and half years ago (2006-12-14), Juliusz wrote:
>> So in order to get hard links on Windows when doing ``darcs get'',
>> you've got two solutions -- you can either implement
>> System.Posix.Files.createLink on Windows within the Ghc libraries
>> (surely the preferred solution), or provide us with an implentation of
>> createLink that works under Windows and that we'll substitute for
>> Ghc's version within Darcs.

Given your previous patch, shouldn't it be easy to create a version of
createLink that works with Windows?

Anybody want to take this on?  It could improve Windows performance a
bit (for people on NTFS filesystems...)!

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