Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.alt_tmpdir

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:

> So, am I getting this right, the issue is actually to move a file from
> one device to another?  

Yes.

> It seems a bit overcomplicated to have a tmpdir option when we could
> simply detect if source and destination are on the same device (the
> structure returned by stat() has the fields st_dev which is to be used
> for this), and select to do something corresponding to 'mv' if it's
> the same, or 'cp' followed by 'rm' if not.

Nathaniel made the same comment.

I also considered just doing copy/remove instead of rename back when I first
proposed this
(http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2010-12/msg00044.html),
but rejected it as not being in the spirit of monotone.

Now that I see how messy the tmpdir solution actually is, and that the
Win32 code actually does copy/remove on older Win32 versions, I'm happy
to give up on tmpdir and implement copy/remove if fstat shows it's
needed.

So I'll implement that on a new branch.

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-- Stephe