Re: [PATCH] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 14:17 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0808280717u78c5ccf8ne1413c701ed8edd9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0808280704h585b6cb4nf03e509de0159a91@mail.gmail.com>

2008/8/28 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:

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> The code tried to create a hardlink to the file ($execdir/git-add) it just
> removed, so ln failed (but because stderr was redirected into /dev/null the
> error was never seen), and the whole install ended up using "ln -s" instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> It created endless symlink loops on cygwin, but obviously nowhere else.
>

Sh@#! Scrap that, there is something else going on in that cygwindows thing...