From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:57:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add a knob to turn off hardlinks within same directory
Message-ID: <20111012195705.GA13768@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vaa969go4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.