Re: [PATCH] Introduce core.keepHardLinks

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 13, 2008, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810131950140.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc7g9z7s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > - all the editors that this guy tested keep the hard links, so it was 
> >   kinda hard to understand why Git insists on behaving differently,
> >
> > - if the user asked for hard links, it is not Git's place to question 
> >   that decision,
> 
> These are non-arguments,

Actually, they are arguments.

The thing is: these editors do what they do for a reason. Which is exactly the second reason.

When a user makes hard links, it is not just for fun and bullocks. It is not for copy-on-write either, that's not what hard links are supposed to do. It is for cases when you need the _same_ information in two places.

I am not that big a user of hard links myself, but when I do, I know exactly what I am doing. And with my patch and that config variable set to true, Git will not interfer with that.

Ciao, Dscho