From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:58:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810131057150.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081012183855.GA5255@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > When a tracked file was hard linked, we used to break the hard link
> > whenever Git writes to that file.  Make that optional.
> 
> Why would anyone want to do this?
> 
> I cannot fathom why a user wants this much rope to hang themselves 
> with...

The question is not so much why anyone want to do this, but _if_.

And the answer is: yes.

Ciao,
Dscho