branching via hard links

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:28 +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> 
> 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 

hg's local clone is a simple recursive copy. This is fast, but has the
downside that a corrupt repository is not noticed.

Rob
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