[MERGE] Implement hard-link support for branch and checkout

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 19:00 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> I don't think one size fits all.  For novice users, yes, this can be
> problematic.  But there are plenty of experienced users who know how to
> use hard links properly and would welcome the space-savings.  I count
> myself among them.
> 
> I don't want to make people shoot themselves in the foot, but holding
> back this capability from those who could benefit is like cutting off
> their feet so they don't shoot themselves in the foot.

I think this analogy is rather extreme. You can have external scripts
that hardlink identical files over arbitrary directory structures;
they've been written before, and will generate better space savings than
bzr knowing how to hardlink in the single special case of branch.

-Rob
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