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From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: git on afs
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:28:01 -0500 (CDT)
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Todd T. Fries wrote:

> 1) git presumes that link() works fine across subdirs; in afs land,
>   hardlinks do not succeed ever

I think this already falls back to rename() on failure.
Take a look at move_temp_to_file(), this is the only
place that calls link_temp_to_file().

link() on afs returns non-zero? and not EEXIST right?

-brandon