From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 30 00:27:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HX365-0007GZ-U9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422651AbXC2W1y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:27:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422662AbXC2W1y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:27:54 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:43855 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422651AbXC2W1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:27:53 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2TMRkZJ008218 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from olympe.imag.fr ([129.88.43.60]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1HX35u-0004YL-61; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200 Received: from moy by olympe.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.50) id 1HX35u-0005O1-3X; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Thu\, 29 Mar 2007 17\:16\:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do > cp -al or something. But be careful that this is a potentially dangerous optimization : if you ever use a command that doesn't break hardlinks (for example "echo foo >> file"), the modification is applied to both trees. -- Matthieu