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[Bug-gnu-arch] Re: [bug #5644] tla get --hardlinks
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
[Bug-gnu-arch] Re: [bug #5644] tla get --hardlinks |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:16:14 -0800 (PST) |
> From: address@hidden
> Code that goes into the main distribution needs to be robust. As
> I said - I'll happily merge this -once- the validation code to
> prevent accidental SNAFU's is in place. While giving the user
> rope is a good thing, getting this wrong would be quite a
> headache for the user - a corrupted archive could result (at
> worst), and at best their changes wouldn't get committed -
> they'd lose data in that they couldn't backout changes or
> recover previous version. I appreciate the importance to folk in
> large projects, and the preload trick to break hardlinks
> automatically may be useful too.
> So strictly speaking: the validation code is needed before I
> merge this.
Quite right.
-t
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- [Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #5644] tla get --hardlinks, nobody, 2003/11/19
- [Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #5644] tla get --hardlinks, nobody, 2003/11/19