From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:17:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install" Message-ID: <81b0412b0808280717u78c5ccf8ne1413c701ed8edd9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0808280704h585b6cb4nf03e509de0159a91@mail.gmail.com> 2008/8/28 Alex Riesen : > 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 > --- > > It created endless symlink loops on cygwin, but obviously nowhere else. > Sh@#! Scrap that, there is something else going on in that cygwindows thing...