Re: ci breaks links unnecessarily & when it says file is unchanged

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sun, 14 May 2017 12:31:51 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
L A Walsh wrote:
> 1) Why are hardlinks _ever_ broken on checking a file in?

ci has always done that, since it may need to change the file and/or make it 
read-only.

> 2) especially in in the case when it says "file is unchanged"

The diagnostic could be improved, yes. "file is unchanged" means the revision is 
unchanged, not that the working file is untouched.