Tool request: "COW patch" that can apply patches to a symlink to a source tree.
I know it can be done that way but it's not what I want. It's massively disproportionate infrastructure, bug surface, & perf impact.
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Whereas in theory the approach I want could be written in shell script and has essentially no run-time cost, only patch-time cost.
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IMO it should be easier to whip up a VFS for usecases like these but I agree the current situation is nowhere near as nice.
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Really depends on your use case. For single fixed deployment, a clean VFS approach would be non-awful.
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OTOH if it's part of a build system you want people to be able to run on arbitrary build hosts, it's show-stoppingly awful.
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In my case I want to use it inside musl-cross-make, keep pristine untarred source trees and COW-apply the patches in each run's build dir.
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