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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker
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Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb:
> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository
> tracking the single file .zit.file/file, which is just a hard link to
> file.

git breaks hard links, mind you! (Just in case you check out older
versions and you wonder why your "real" file is not updated).

But there's a recent patch by Dscho floating around that takes care of the
hard link case.

-- Hannes