Re: [Quilt-dev] Refresh and hardlinks

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 18:59, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> [Andreas Gruenbacher]
>
> > currently the refresh command writes directly into the existing patch
> > file instead of creating a new file, which makes a difference when
> > the patch is a symlink or hardlink. I think it makes more sense to
> > create a new object instead, so that a refresh will work nicely with
> > hardlinked patches. Are there any reasons not to change that?
>
> Sounds sane to me, no objection - although I'd like to be told about
> scenarii where hardlinked patch files are used.

Well, they were simply written to up to now. With the patch, a new patch is 
created instead.

> > Proposed patch attached.
>
> Not exactly related, but why do we bother handling .tgz files? I don't
> quite see how a patch could be a .tgz file.

Yes, that can go as well.

-- Andreas.