Not sure this is actually a bug or expected behaviour. I have a .bib file in a directory and I have created a hard linked .bib in another directory. After doing this both have the same inode number. Modifying one of the files, doesn't matter which, changes its inode, breaking the link. System: Git revision 90e6d7a (0.7) KDE 4.14.10 Observed same behaviour with version 0.6, installed from openSUSE 13.1 KDE repo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a hard link to a .bib file in a different directory (ln /path/to/bibfile.bib linkedfile.bib). 2. Observe bibfile.bib and linkedfile.bib have the same inode. 3. Open one of them, modify and save. 4. Observe that the inode of the modified file is now different. Actual Results: Inode number of hardlinked file changes upon save. Expected Results: Inode number of hardlinked files should remain the same. Use case: I keep my .bib files in a `references' directory, but I need a .bib file in a project directory which is under version control, so that I can push and pull changes to the .bib file, and I don't want to maintain two files. Symlinking to the file in the `references' directory doesn't work, since only the reference to the symlinked file is pushed. Solution: create a hard link to the `central' file. Note: creating the link in the 'central' dir to the file in the project directory has the same result. Workaround: creating a symlink in 'central' to the file in the project directory will do the job.
Please test branch 'bugs/kde358984' on my personal Git repository on KDE: https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkbibtex%2Fthomasfischer%2Fkbibtex.git The relevant commit is http://commits.kde.org/clones/kbibtex/thomasfischer/kbibtex/47dff0a5ef101343ba9aafbd8538fe2d96052d40
I replace commit 47dff0a5ef101343ba9aafbd8538fe2d96052d40 with a better commit 5884726b8fd4e218b800a47b1be9fb78a4e9d538, thus rewriting the Git history for the 'bugs/kde358984' branch on 'clones/kbibtex/thomasfischer/kbibtex'. Can you please check and verify if the bug you reported is fixed now?
Git commit b72743cd7532e167751f0d2788c8509301ae5515 by Thomas Fischer. Committed on 03/11/2016 at 20:25. Pushed by thomasfischer into branch 'kbibtex/0.7'. Refactoring writing files This patch addresses issues when writing bibliography files, as it gets apparent when writing a file with multiple hard links. The changes introduced with this commit include: - When writing to local files, no temporary file is used. Instead, the target file gets directly overwritten. If the local filename is a symbolic link, the real file the symbolic link points to will get overwritten. Backup files' names will be based on the symbolic links' names, not the real files' names. For remote files, a local temporary file is used to write data to before uploading this temporary file to its target location. - In case of errors, a message box may get shown. If the bibliography exporter added text to an error log, a special message box listing those error messages will be shown. M +73 -45 src/parts/part.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kbibtex/b72743cd7532e167751f0d2788c8509301ae5515