--hardlink option produce traceback on Windows

Seems like we are blindly trying to hard link.

If we wanted, we could try using the win32 apis for doing NTFS hard links.
Alternatively, we could detect "getattr(os, 'link', None) is None" and abort with a BzrCommandError that the user requested --hardlink on a platform without support for it.

IME, Windows uses the standard Python API for hard linking. That may only work on Python 2.5.

IME? Did you mean IIRC? As I understand, os.link() has not been implement for python on win32, but I could be wrong.

I was thinking of using:
  win32file.CreateHardLink(dst, src)

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John A Meinel wrote:
> IME? Did you mean IIRC? As I understand, os.link() has not been
> implement for python on win32, but I could be wrong.

I tested the --hardlink code under win32, and to my great surprise, it
worked.

Aaron
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It doesn't work here. I still get an error. This is on Win7 Beta1 build 7000, but I don't think the hardlink api has changed since Vista.
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$ bzr branch . ../SS --hardlink
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'link'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 893, in run_bzr_catch_errors
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 839, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 539, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 1038, in run
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 1127, in sprout
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 1441, in create_workingtree
  File "bzrlib\workingtree_4.pyo", line 1389, in initialize
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 2033, in build_tree
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 2125, in _build_tree
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 2168, in _create_files
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 392, in create_hardlink
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'link'

bzr 1.11rc1 on python 2.5.2 (win32)
arguments: ['c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Bazaar\\bzr.exe', 'branch', '.', '../SS', '--hardlink']
encoding: 'cp1252', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: None
plugins:
  bzrtools C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\bzrtools [1.11]
  launchpad C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\launchpad [unknown]
  netrc_credential_store C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\netrc_credential_store [unknown]
  qbzr C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\qbzr [0.9.6]
  svn C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\svn [0.4.17]
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