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Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Mar 29, 2007, 22:27 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do
> cp -al or something.

But be careful that this is a potentially dangerous optimization : if you ever use a command that doesn't break hardlinks (for example "echo foo >> file"), the modification is applied to both trees.

-- 
Matthieu
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