Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: bitkeeper vs tla

[John Meinel]

Dustin Sallings wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2004, at 20:40, John Meinel wrote:
>
> > Well, if you can do hard-linked source trees, I've found that my 'tla 
> > changes' time goes *way* down.
>
>
>     Hmm...  I didn't try that one, but it scares me just a bit.  I have 
> a fear that some tool I use might end up screwing up the revlib.

Only chmod can screw a revlib and it won't know about it. But if you 
touch the file, it wakes up and realizes the revlib is corrupt and 
requests that you remove the offending patch (though only one at a time).

vim & emacs both have configurations for break hardlinks on write. (I 
use vim)

Yes, it's a problem if you do a lot of chmod, or have lots of scripts 
that you run on your source directory. I don't. I tend to edit my source 
tree. But then again, on win32 I'm not daring to --link, and on some of 
the work machines I develop on an NFS mount and keep a local revlib in 
/tmp (again I can't hardlink across filesystems.) So I don't use --link, 
all the time. But when I get the opportunity, I use it. _much_ faster.

John
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