[darcs-users] darcs patch: Accept issue1645: w -l should ignore symlinks.

Trent W. Buck twb at cybersource.com.au
Thu Oct 22 05:57:35 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:25:23PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 16:39:43 +1100, Trent W.Buck wrote:
>>   * Accept issue1645: w -l should ignore symlinks.
>
> Note that I have on some occasions used symlinks within a repo and
> tracked both sides in Darcs.

IMO that is what hard links are for.  (Of course, it's easy to break
hard links if your editor is "too clever" and tries to save to disk
atomically by doing a write-elsewhere-then-move-over-the-top dance.)


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