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Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add a knob to turn off hardlinks within same directory

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2011, 19:57 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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.
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