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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: libraries / cacherevs
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: libraries / cacherevs |
Date: |
27 Feb 2004 12:09:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> In order to do its hard-linking, library-add reimplements part of
> build-revision. Library-add desperately wants to find a revision it can
> hard-link from, so it will seek as far back as it can.
BTW, what are those hardlinks used for?
Why not only keep the currently-non-hardlinked files (and rely on the
inventory to discover that the file exists in the revision and then look
for older revs in the lib if you ever need to look at that file).
Stefan