From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:46:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: USE_SYMLINK option
Message-ID: <7v7iplcmar.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070630181456.GA15035@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:

> I found no real drawback using symlinks and symlinks are sometimes
> more practical, for example when copying/creating a tarball of the
> installation.

Well, tar handles hard links just fine, thanks.  The real
drawbacks of doing symlinks people often cite (and I agree to)
are that they can become dangling, and they consume i-nodes.