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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:17:34 +0200
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2008/8/28 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:
> The code tried to create a hardlink to the file ($execdir/git-add) it just
> removed, so ln failed (but because stderr was redirected into /dev/null the
> error was never seen), and the whole install ended up using "ln -s" instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> It created endless symlink loops on cygwin, but obviously nowhere else.
>

Sh@#! Scrap that, there is something else going on in that cygwindows thing...