Emacs link breaking?

[Bill Clarke]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:39, Simon Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:35:30AM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> > Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com) wrote:
> > > I have a large source tree. I would like to be able to have a second copy
> > > of that source tree where the second copy is composed of hard links. When

go to the "backup" group in customize (M-x customize, Files, Backup). 
the first two options should be on (Make Backup Files), off (Backup By
Copying) and off (Backup By Copying When Linked).  the third one may be
non-nil for you which is not what you want.

cheers,
/lib
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