Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:46 +0200

"J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]> writes:

> If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do
> cp -al or something.

But be careful that this is a potentially dangerous optimization : if
you ever use a command that doesn't break hardlinks (for example
"echo foo >> file"), the modification is applied to both trees.

-- 
Matthieu