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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Are pristine trees really dead?


From: Mark Thomas
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Are pristine trees really dead?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:45:55 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Charles Duffy wrote:

> Revision libraries require cross-directory hardlinks. Not everyone has
> those.

Surely a sparse revision library with no cross-directory hardlinks is
almost identical to in-tree pristines (they are, essentially, out-of-tree
pristines).

I'm assuming here that revision libraries can degrade to copying the
file when they can't hardlink.  Am I right?

Regards,

  Mark.
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