Comment 6 for bug 408193

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 408193] Re: bzr branch or checkout --hardlink has no effect in 2a format

2009/8/12 Ian Clatworthy <email address hidden>:
> FWIW, my changes to make content filtering work/faster were just that.
> At no stage did I intend --hardlink to stop working. If it turns out
> that the two are incompatible for some technical reason, then we ought
> to trap that fact up-front and tell the user immediately when they
> specify --hardlink as an option, not fail silently.

That's what my patch does.

There's a comment block, I think mentioned in this bug or touched by
my patch, from you, that disables it but isn't quite clear about
whether it would be safe or just slow to turn it back on.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>