From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:41:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH (Apple Git) 09/13] Use symbolic links rather than hard links for files in libexec Message-ID: <230CA858-D709-4142-9563-20A4887F2ED8@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <20190130095006.GC24387@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> > On Jan 30, 2019, at 01:50, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:38:15AM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: >> See > > It's my understanding that Radars aren't public. Could you summarize the > reasons behind this change in the commit message for those of us who > don't have access to view this issue? There was a bug in some tool in our packaging pipeline that resulted in hardlinks not being preserved. That was fixed, but I decided to leave these as symlinks anyways in case users did a file operation on Xcode.app that didn't preserve hard links. The point here is that it would probably be nice to have hard vs soft be a configuration option.