Re: msysGit on FAT32

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <47555A9E.3090902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712041329230.27959@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>>
>>> BTW, we do use hardlinks on Windows; even the MsysGit installer 
>>> creates them (as long as the filesystem is NTFS). So, the fallout you 
>>> are expecting/hoping for will not be in the first round of MinGW port 
>>> patches. ;)
>> Would it be possible to add option to an installer to _not_ install 
>> git-cmd form for builtins when installing on FAT28^W FAT32?
> 
> It is the InnoSetup based installer that does that.  MSys has no way (yet) 
> to create hard links (at least that's the state of my knowledge).

I don't know about MSys, the runtime, but MSys's 'ln' and 'cp -l' both create hardlinks on NTFS. And for this reason, 'git clone -l' does, too.

-- Hannes