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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq648jit25.fsf@olympe.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Thu\, 29 Mar 2007 17\:16\:16 -0400")

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> 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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29 20:50 basics... when reading docs doesn't help Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 21:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-29 21:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-29 21:46     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-29 22:13       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 22:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 18:16           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 18:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 19:49               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 20:06                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 20:23                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-30 20:39                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-30 21:11                   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30  2:43         ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-30 14:49           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-30 18:02         ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-03-30 18:24           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 22:27   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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