Re: [patch] preserve symlinked .configs

[Marko Kreen]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:01:33PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> When one has several machines it is nice to keep each
> machine's .config under revision control.  Then, on
> each machine,
> 
> 	ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config
> 
> Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and
> removes your link, causing much irritation.

IMHO currect behaviour is the Right Thing.  Think of 'cp -al' on
trees.  Patching one does not affect another, because patch()
does not modify files, it creates new file.  If I use your patch
and have 'cp -al'-d trees which happen to have .config inside,
doing 'make *config' in one tree will affect another.  Thats
wrong.

-- 
marko