Re: [Gnu-arch-users] hardlinked pristine trees

[Bruce Stephens]

Pau Aliagas <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> But (and that's a big but), I don't see any danger in hardlinking
> pristine trees. The danger is the same than if you corrupt a local
> pristine, be it hardlinked or not, but the benefits are obvious:
> space saving, full speed gets, etc. Pristine trees are neeed, for
> instance, to compute what-changed.

[...]

> Does anybody have an opinion about it?

Much better to have sparse revision libraries, and do away with
pristine trees altogether, IMHO.