Re: Way to bypass or disable for ls hard link highlighting

[Pádraig Brady]

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> other cases the behavior is equivalent to symbolic link. I propose a one-line 
> patch like this:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f3f1ccfd871ee395e7fafc051c1b7dedb39fdfc9
> 
> With the patch user can choose to not highlight hardlinks in his own profile.

Options should be avoided if at all possible.

> IMHO it's not common to distribute Linux (or any other systems) with tons
> of hard-linked files. The hard links are mostly created by user. It should be 
> visible at first glance if the file is hard-linked unintentionally (e.g. by 
> omitting -s option of ln).
> 
> The patch will be ready next week. Also any other ideas are welcome.

hardlinks are sometimes used to efficiently store 2 trees efficiently,
which can editied independently as long as the files aren't edited in place.

cheers,
Pádraig.