From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:01 GMT
Subject: git stash destroys hard links
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLWadNg9d_i8fZTawaxYm3ytcGCT4pzeth=LxrQYEO-3ww@mail.gmail.com>

I dont know if this is even fixable, but I wanted to at least mention it.
Performing a git stash will destroy any hard links and replace them with simply
a copy of the file.

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init
$ touch foobar.sh
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m 'first commit'

$ ln foobar.sh foobar-link.sh

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 2 Steven None 0 May 21 23:18 foobar.sh
-rw-r--r-- 2 Steven None 0 May 21 23:18 foobar-link.sh

$ git stash -u
$ git stash pop

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 Steven None 0 May 21 23:18 foobar.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 Steven None 0 May 21 23:18 foobar-link.sh