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Depends if the backup's on the same filesystem as the source.

• greglindahl 13y ago
  You don't want to hard-link backups to the non-backup copy -- the non-backup files might change, and if it is a change that doesn't remove the file first, it will modify the backups if the backups are hard linked. Doesn't vim intentionally do this if it edits files that are hard linked? emacs breaks the hard link. I'm not saying either behavior is best, but in this case one might be surprising!
  • ilikejam 13y ago
    Good call.