Re: A puzzle: reset --hard and hard links

From: Michael Herrmann <michael@herrmann.io>
Date: Jan 24, 2022, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CABrKpmB7UEGzLCiNHQtY5-Dt16jLkpcpBEx3o8y9OBGZ418keA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0ep57ou.fsf@gitster.g>

> It is merely because you helped Git to realize

I don't want to "help Git realize". I'm sorry but in my opinion `git status` should not have any effects on other commands. I don't understand how you can argue that calling `git status` is a valid fix to "help Git".

> With another step 1.5 "append a line to the file in question", git
> should severe the link,

I don't want to sever the hard link. I want to avoid that it gets severed.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 15:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Michael Herrmann <michael@herrmann.io> writes:
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> > I now believe this is a bug in Git because calling `git status` fixes
> > the problem.
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> > 1) Create a hard link to a file in a Git repo.
> > 2) Call `git status`.
> > 3) Call `git reset --hard`.
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> It is merely because you helped Git to realize that there is no need
> to change the contents of hte file with "reset --hard".
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> With another step 1.5 "append a line to the file in question", git
> should severe the link, I would think, as at that point, to revert
> the contents of the file in question to its pristine state, it needs
> to modify it.
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