From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262859AbUCJWRn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:17:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262860AbUCJWRn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:17:43 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:17868 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262859AbUCJWRk (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:17:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:17:40 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Jamie Lokier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for testing] cow behaviour for hard links Message-ID: <20040310221740.GA7357@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20040310193429.GB4589@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040310213427.GB7341@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040310213427.GB7341@mail.shareable.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 March 2004 21:34:27 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > I like the idea! Thanks! > I keep many hard-linked kernel trees, and local version management is > done by "cp -rl" to make new trees and then change a few files in > those trees, compile, test etc. To prevent changes in one tree > accidentally affecting other trees, I "chmod -R a-r" all but the tree > I'm currently working on. > > Thats works quite nicely, but it'd be even nicer to not need the > "chmod", and just be confident that writes won't clobber files in > another tree by accident. Same here, that was my main motivation. Ultimately I'd like to see a lot of SCM functionality inside regular filesystems and this is just the first step. Jörn -- Good warriors cause others to come to them and do not go to others. -- Sun Tzu