ANNOUNCE: CVS to arch gateway

[Bruce Mellows]

Troy Rollo wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

there was a discussion on this topic quite recently in the vimdev
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/35276?threaded=1