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At 9:05 AM -0400 8/25/06, John Baldwin wrote:
>On 24 August 2006, Julian Elischer wrote in a cvs-commit log:
>  >
>  > Add an option to allow copying of a hierarchy while
>  > linking he regular files.

Very good for commiting this --  except that I'm not quite
sure that log-message is parseable!  From looking at the
man-page update, this option only handles hard-links?  What
happens with symlinks?

>  > Bikeshedded to death on: hackers
>>  Submitted by:andersonatcenttech.com
>>  MFC in: 1 month
>
>It was on my todo list as well.  I think I'll still add
>the -a option.

I think that is a good idea, too.

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