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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add a knob to turn off hardlinks within same
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:57:05 -0500
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Wouldn't your use case be better served with
>
>     $ tar zcf dist.tar.gz --hard-dereference $list_of_files_to_tar_up
>
> instead?

No, because that duplicates the files instead of making symlinks.