Re: A puzzle: reset --hard and hard links
On Jan 24 2022, Michael Herrmann wrote:
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> My suspicion is that Git keeps a cache of the stat(...) result of
> files. An additional hard link increases the .st_nlink count of this
> struct. `git reset` compares the cached stat(...) values to the actual
> ones and sees that one has changed. `git status` does the same but is
> smart enough to realize that the additional hard link does not change
> anything. It writes this to the cache. `git reset` should also be
> smart!
See the core.trustctime config.
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