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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:38:55 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> When a tracked file was hard linked, we used to break the hard link
> whenever Git writes to that file.  Make that optional.

Why would anyone want to do this?

I cannot fathom why a user wants this much rope to hang themselves
with...

 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 173386e..7bfe431 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ core.symlinks::
>  	file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
>  	symbolic links. True by default.
>  
> +core.keepHardLinks::
> +	If true, do not break hard links by deleting and recreating the
> +	files.  Off by default.
> +
>  core.gitProxy::
>  	A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
>  	of establishing direct connection to the remote server when

-- 
Shawn.