From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:01:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks
Message-ID: <7vskr0bnlk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810131057150.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> I cannot fathom why a user wants this much rope to hang themselves 
>> with...
>
> The question is not so much why anyone want to do this, but _if_.

Sorry, I think the question should be _why_.

You can gain a sympathetic "Ah, that is sensible, and 'this much rope to
hang themselves with' comment was unwarranted" only by answering that
question.