Re: the meaning of keephardlinks

From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2009, 03:30 UTC
Message-ID: <93c3eada0901121930n16dd2e83v452c38fd30da5054@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901130141190.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On 1/13/09, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>  On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>  > 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?
>
>
> Nope.
>
>  It means that if you have a hard link locally, it will stay a hard link
>  (and if it is modified, the other linked files will obviously change,
>  too).
>
>  Note that this feature is not even in 'next'.
>
>  Ciao,
>  Dscho

Fine. Thanks,

Geoff.