[TxMt] Atomic Saving / Saving Question

Ollivier Robert roberto+textmate at keltia.freenix.fr
Tue Feb 1 12:08:06 UTC 2005


According to Sune Foldager:
> The disadvantage of atomic saves (for some), is that the file gets a 
> new inode-number each time which will break hard-links and might upset 
> aliases if they are not pointing correctly.

The advantage is that with GNU arch/bazaar which use hard-linking to a
central revision library (to speed up access and avoid wasting space) you
can use TM.  When one modifies a given file, in that case you MUST break
hard links.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov  7 16:06:51 PST 2004



More information about the textmate mailing list