Description of "link-tree" from bzrtools is not enough

Asked by Aliaksei Vasileuski

The description is "link-tree - Hardlink matching files to another tree. [bzrtools]"
I can't understand from this:
1. is it supported on Windows? (is it cross-platform?)
2. if supported, does it use real NTFS hard links? (important)
3. does it work with FAT32? (although not important for me at all)
*** 4. I' m unsure about what it does. Can I use it in my project to have two copies (original copy + hardlinked one) of directory, so some files are the shared and have one (single) history? ***
5. I need possible use cases for this command! I googled it, but found NO usage examples at all.

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Martin Pool (mbp) said :
#1

The easiest thing would be to just try it on Windows.

This doesn't have any semantic effect on the history. It just causes hardlinks to be made between the working copies on disk, to save disk space.

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) said :
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It relies on python's os.link() which claims Unix availability only.

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