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From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is
	possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:39:13 +0200
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Hello David,
as I mentioned and showed in my original e-mail:

        git checkout /path/to/repo

triggers the problem also. So no, "cp -a" has nothing todo with it
because root is able to read _all_ files no matter who the files are
owned by and what the permissions of these files are[1]. This happens on
a _local_ fileystem. And what worries me is that git does something that
breaks the _hard link counter_ of a directory.

        Thomas

[1] Notes
        Of course that doesn't apply to all filesystems. For example AFS
        and NFS. But as I said before it happens on a _UFS_ filesystem.