Comments on defunct: Hard-linked chrome now supported on Windows

I tried to teach nsinstall to use hard links, but ...

2011-03-03T18:06:12.991+05:30

I tried to teach nsinstall to use hard links, but quickly ran into a problem when it tried to reinstall itself for a depend build; when nsinstall tried to break the existing link it failed because you can't break a hard link to a running executable. Oops.

Alex: well, Python doesn't even support creati...

2011-03-02T23:30:26.767+05:30

Alex: well, Python doesn't even support creating hard links on Windows before 3.2. I had to dig in to win32 using ctypes to do this.

Symbolic links for everybody! http://weblogs.mozil...

2011-03-02T23:26:27.097+05:30

Symbolic links for everybody!
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/020645.html

(Actually, I'd take any advice on creating hard links from Python, if they really are recommended for WinXP.)

Ben: At least on Windows, when you clone a local r...

2011-03-02T21:13:31.147+05:30

Ben: At least on Windows, when you clone a local repository hg only hardlinks its internal store, not the working directory.

I'm not sure telling people to disable hardlin...

2011-03-02T20:24:01.596+05:30

I'm not sure telling people to disable hardlink-breaking by default in emacs is a good idea. I'm pretty sure that Mercurial uses hardlinks when you do local repository clones, and relies on editors breaking the hardlinks before editing (it certainly does on Linux). If you ever do local clones, you could end up making changes to trees you didn't expect.