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the meaning of keephardlinks

From
Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 00:17 UTC
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<93c3eada0901121617m43af82a7te946b1607fbf3f77@mail.gmail.com>
I'm curious about what keephardlinks means.

If I do: "ln X Y ; git add Y ; git commit" in my origin and then "git pull" in my cloned repository, should I get a hard linked file in the clone when core.keephardlinks is set to true?

Cheers, Geoff Russell

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