branching via hard links

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Dear All,

Just out of curiosity: Would it make sense (at least undir Linux/Unix)
systems to use, when doing a "bzr branch" some kind of  "cp -r -l"?
The main advantage is speed (and storage). Sure, there would be a need
to unlink the modified files, so maybe this is more trouble than is
worth it. The nice thing about hard links  is that it makes
branching/cloning a lot more inexpensve. (I think Mercurial uses hard
links when possible, and this I think accounts in part for the 5x to
8x faster "cloning" compared to bazaar).

Best,

R.




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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Bioinformatics Unit
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz