Re: msysGit on FAT32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 14:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712041413450.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47555A9E.3090902@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > BTW, we do use hardlinks on Windows; even the MsysGit installer creates
> > > > them (as long as the filesystem is NTFS). So, the fallout you are
> > > > expecting/hoping for will not be in the first round of MinGW port
> > > > patches. ;)
> > > Would it be possible to add option to an installer to _not_ install
> > > git-cmd form for builtins when installing on FAT28^W FAT32?
> > 
> > It is the InnoSetup based installer that does that.  MSys has no way (yet)
> > to create hard links (at least that's the state of my knowledge).
> 
> I don't know about MSys, the runtime, but MSys's 'ln' and 'cp -l' both create
> hardlinks on NTFS. And for this reason, 'git clone -l' does, too.

Does it? *goestocheck* Indeed it works! (The hardest part was to verify it; seems like you have to use MSys' stat.exe, as regular Windows seems to have _no_ tool to find that out.)

Thanks, Dscho