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Re: the meaning of keephardlinks

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 00:42 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901130141190.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:
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> I'm curious about what keephardlinks means.
> 
> If I do: "ln X Y ; git add Y ; git commit" in my origin and then
> "git pull" in my cloned repository,
> should I get a hard linked file in the clone
> when core.keephardlinks is set to true?
Nope.

It means that if you have a hard link locally, it will stay a hard link (and if it is modified, the other linked files will obviously change, too).

Note that this feature is not even in 'next'.

Ciao, Dscho

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