[darcs-users] how about copying pristine cache files instead of linking them?

[Max Battcher]

Eric Kow wrote:
> Hi Petr,
> 
> Thanks to meeting and chatting with you at the hackathon, I have a much
> better grasp of our current --hashed performance problems.
> 
> As you explained it, one problem is that on the one hand, hashed
> pristine files can be shared across branches via hard-linking while on
> the other hand, darcs operations in one branch will synch the timestamps
> on those files with their working dir equivalents, thus invalidating the
> timestamps for the other branch.  (So far so good?)

Won't this issue disappear with the file index stuff anyway? It sounds 
to me like yet another case for getting the file index stuff done.

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