From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:08:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905112107420.27348@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A085280.3090501@gmx.ca>

Hi,

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Cedric Staniewski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 	I do not understand how this commit could be responsible, but here 
> > 	is an attempt to fix things.
> 
> The important difference is that before this commit, git-add was
> hardlinked to a file outside of DESTDIR. Thus, when the build directory
> was removed or you tar'ed DESTDIR, git-add was just a regular file and
> all the other builtins were hardlinked to it.

Ah.

But you did not say if you like/tested the patch or not.

Ciao,
Dscho