Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about branching a subset

[Aaron Bentley]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > This may be because the implementation of hard links under HFS+ has
> > fairly bad performance.

> This seems to be the problem. I was very surprised when I found that
> using "tla changes --link" actually made tree-lint and changes *slower*
> rather than faster.
>
> Do you have a version of your relink script that can actually *unlink*
> all of the files? :)

No, and I'm deeply offended by the suggestion :-)

Okay, I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to do.  Mainly, you need to 
write a variant of walk_candidates that outputs only things that *don't* 
need to be hard-linked.

Then, instead of re-linking, copy the file to a tempfile, make damn sure 
you set the permissions properly, and rename it over top of the original.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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