From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert+news@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git clone, hardlinks and multiple users?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:31:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jfc8eh$ck5$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
Hi,
"git clone" is using hardlinks by default, even when cloning from a
different user. In such a case the clone ends up with a number of files
owned by someone else.
Since only immutable objects are cloned this seems to work fine. However
I would like to know if this "multiple users" case works by chance or by
specification.
In other words, is there a guarantee that no later version of git or no
obscure option I haven't used yet will ever try to touch a hardlink in
any way like for instance: trying update some metadata timestamp or,
overwrite it with the same value by lack of optimization, or any other
kind of side-effect that would obviously fail.
Thanks in advance!
Marc
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 17:31 Marc Herbert [this message]
2012-01-21 22:54 ` git clone, hardlinks and multiple users? Neal Kreitzinger
2012-01-23 17:55 ` Marc Herbert
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