branching via hard links

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Thanks! I had not yet read that message.

R.

On 5/14/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:28:28PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Have a look ath John Meinels reaction the bzr/hg speed comparison, it is
> brought up there.
>
> Wouter van Heyst
>
>


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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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