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Bug#281670: ITP: fl-cow -- copy-on-write utility



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fl-cow
  Version         : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi
* URL             : http://xmailserver.org/flcow.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : copy-on-write utility

Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing
hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed.

This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy
of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the
Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision
library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption.



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