Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)

> Hello David,
> as I mentioned and showed in my original e-mail:
>
>         git checkout /path/to/repo
>
> triggers the problem also. So no, "cp -a" has nothing todo with it
> because root is able to read _all_ files no matter who the files are
> owned by and what the permissions of these files are[1]. This happens on
> a _local_ fileystem. And what worries me is that git does something that
> breaks the _hard link counter_ of a directory.