Den lör 31 juli 2021 kl 05:42 skrev Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com>:
> On 30 Jul 2021, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >How about (hard-|sym)linking the worktree file to the pristine > >and > >making it read-only until the user requests it to be made > >editable? > >Compare git-annex-unlock(1). > > That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure how portable hard-links > are, and we can't rely on every file-modifying tool on the user's > system knowing about this. > I'm not sure about what operating systems Subversion really support, but the Binary packages web page [1] lists only Unix-like OSes and Windows. I suppose all *nix have hard links. Windows support hard links on NTFS partitions, but not on ReFS (the "next generation FS" for Windows) and not on *FAT*. But I have a bad feeling about having a hard link to the pristine file and managing to avoid some user messing up both the worktree file and the pristine. I know nothing about git annex, but there it seems that annex.thin is using the model of hard linking to save disk space but: "While this can save considerable disk space, any modification made to a file will cause the old version of the file to be lost from the local repository. So, enable annex.thin with care." Kind regards, Daniel Sahlberg [1] https://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
