[PLUGIN] bzr uncommit updated
John A Meinel
john at arbash-meinel.com
Mon Sep 26 16:31:22 BST 2005
Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John A Meinel wrote:
>
>>>>Done now. copy_multi_immutable will use hard links but fall back to
>>>>copying across devices or on Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>>Can you have it not do hard-links on Mac?
>>>Mac has hard-links, but the implementation is very poor.
>
>
> Ugh, yes. I'd forgotten about that. I think I'll invert the test and
> only hard link on known-safe platforms.
>
> Anyone know the sys.platform or platform.system() values for Linux and
> major Unices?
>
>
>>>Also, is this hard-linking to --basis or to the branch being pulled from
>>> (or is it just wherever it can get the file)?
>
>
> It could be either, but if you specify a basis, the pulled branch is
> probably remote. There is no need to specify a basis locally, as hard
> links will be used automatically.
>
> Aaron
I just wanted to comment that I just used your latest bzr.24 with
opportunistic hardlinks and --basis, and it really made branching from a
remote repository a breeze. Superfast linking, and only needing to
download what has changed. Much nicer than "cp -al; backup; bzr pull"
John
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