Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Are pristine trees really dead?

[Pau Aliagas]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Charles Duffy wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:54, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> > Not so. You can have rev-libs without any need to hardlink the working 
> > trees against them. The importat thing is to have revision libraries. If 
> > you manage large projects (linux kernel, gcc, [x]emacs) then you MAY want 
> > to save space and speed up things using hardlinks. But don't be confused 
> > they are not mandatory, not at all, they are a convenient feature.
> 
> As revlibs are implimented right now, hardlinks between different
> revisions of the same app stored within the revlib are indeed mandatory.
> Sure, the hardlinks between the revlibs and the working trees are
> optional -- but those aren't what I'm talking about.

Woops, I noticed it too late. Sorry for the noise.

Pau