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Bug#602314: please let unison create hardlinks



Hello,

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:14:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: unison
> Version: 2.32.52-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Thanks to storing content hashes, unison can SHORTCUT copying remote
> files by using already present local files as source. It sounds like
> it would be just a small step towards letting unison hardlink those
> files instead, falling back to copying if the hardlink fails.
> 

I am not sure to understand what you ask. Hardlinks and copies are not
the same thing. AFAIU, if you hardlink a file to a different filename
and make a change to one of these files, it will also appear in the
other file. You don't have this effect with copies. If the remote file
is not an hardlink, there is no point making the local file an hardlink.

Are you really sure about this feature? Could you explain to me how you
expect it to work?

Cheers
Sylvain Le Gall

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