[rfc] Windows symlink support

[James Blackwell]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:26:18PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> I would like to add a small point here. One very useful use case for
> versioning /etc is not for backups, but actually for system
> administration over multiple machines.

Andrew Tridgell of Samba told me that they currently do this with another
RCS. They'd like to do it with bzr but need better hook support first.

> Some people version $HOME, which I have started playing around with.
> Mostly because I have 10 different machines I work on, at various sites
> (home, work, laptop, school, etc), where doing an NFS mounted home
> directory is not possible (kind of hard to do on an airplane), but it
> also sucks to try and keep my ~/.vimrc .vim/* in sync.

I know you know this; my post is intended for others that are reading you.

Please pay attention if you are doing this. Bazaar-NG doesn't track
read/write permissions and will write them according to your umask (man
bash, search for umask).  I suggest you not track anything that is
concerned about permissions, such as .ssh.

> Anyway, there is a definite use case which isn't really a backup system,
> and you would still want to version /etc or $HOME.
> 
> John
> =:->



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