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

[Charles Duffy]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:54, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> Not so. You can have rev-libs without any need to hardlink the working 
> trees against them. The importat thing is to have revision libraries. If 
> you manage large projects (linux kernel, gcc, [x]emacs) then you MAY want 
> to save space and speed up things using hardlinks. But don't be confused 
> they are not mandatory, not at all, they are a convenient feature.

As revlibs are implimented right now, hardlinks between different
revisions of the same app stored within the revlib are indeed mandatory.
Sure, the hardlinks between the revlibs and the working trees are
optional -- but those aren't what I'm talking about.