Re: gnulib-tool.py: --symbolic and --hardlink support

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/18/2017 01:26 PM, Dmitry Selyutin wrote:
> I see a big amount of code  > regarding --symlink and --hardlink; do these options have use except 
of > speeding up the gnulib-tool? I mean, are these options used in 
practice?
I use --hardlink so that when I edit files with Emacs I update both the 
gnulib-tool-generated file and the original source file, without 
worrying about how I got to the file. I imagine others use --symlink for 
the same reason, though I don't use it much.