Re: gnulib-tool: don't use hard links

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Paul,

> > When you set vc-follow-symlinks to nil,
> 
> I don't want to do that. I want to edit just one file and have it affect 
> everything I'm working on

"gnulib-tool -S" and (setq vc-follow-symlinks nil) achieves just that, as far
as I can see from experiments.

> without hassling me about it.

You could get rid of the useless warning
  "Warning: symbolic link to Git-controlled source file"
since you are close to the Emacs developers.

> Better, I suppose, would be setting vc-follow-symlinks to t,

When you set vc-follow-symlinks to t, then at the next file you open, it shows
you the directory of the gnulib checkout, not the testdir's contents. Which is
usually not what you want.

> for other 
> stuff that I'm working on, where the default value 'ask' is often the right 
> thing to do.

Well, in this case, if for other projects 'ask' is better, I'll implement
the options -h / --hardlink, -H / --more-hardlinks.

Bruno