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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:58:47 -0600
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   csup update actions
Message-ID:  <47735B37.90700@cyberleo.net>

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Hi!

Does anyone know how csup handles updating changed files?

Given that each branch of FreeBSD is nearly 500 megabytes in size, and
undoubtedly contains a significant number of identical files from branch
to branch, I figure it's feasable to create a new branch consisting
entirely of files hardlinked from a lower branch, then run csup over that.

Would csup properly handle this scenario and unlink/recreate the changed
files, or would it update them in-place, and thus destroy the parent branch?

Thanks!

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