From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 09:06:52 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2016, #02; Thu, 4)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608071104070.5786@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqshukyxqw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * js/import-tars-hardlinks (2016-08-03) 1 commit
>  - import-tars: support hard links
> 
>  "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
>  hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
>  corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
>  shared with.

For the record: this came up, and is required, for my CI work on Windows,
as many MSYS2 packages contain hard-linked files (think about *all* the
builtins in Git, for example). I will use Git to synchronize MSYS2 setups
between build agents.

Ciao,
Dscho