Re: ANNOUNCE: CVS to arch gateway

[Troy Rollo]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:37, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:26:49 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Oh one other thing to mention is that hard linking trees together
> like the merge script does is sort of experimental with Wine. I've tried
> it and not seen any big issues as long as you use an editor that breaks
> hard links, but if you spot wierdness related to that let me know.

I'm surprised to hear there are any UNIX or Linux editors that break hard 
links (which I take to mean that an edit should sever the link so that the 
other location keeps the old copy).

There are many situations in which I rely on the fact that vi and vim do not 
break hard links.