From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:27:46 GMT
Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Message-ID: <vpq648jit25.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org>

"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