From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 22:01:01 GMT
Subject: Re: More problems...
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505022258150.27741@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20050502193327.GB20818@pasky.ji.cz>

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:57:53PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> told me that...
> > There should definitely be an option to either enable or disable this as 
> > there are legitimate cases for not wanting hard links or indeed using 
> > file systems which do not support them.
> 
> Are there legitimate cases for not wanting hard links when you are able
> to create them? (Same filesystem, filesystem supports them...)

I would say yes.  For example, I want to update my git tools to the latest 
and greatest development version.  Do I really want to let it loose on all 
the repositories?  Probably not.  So I would want to make a clone of the 
repository that is not connected in any way with the old one and then 
try the new tools.  If there were hard links involved working on the 
cloned repository could potentially damage the original one.

Yes, yes, I know all tools are perfect and never have bugs but I am 
paranoid.  (-;

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
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