Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.29.0-rc1

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2020, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqimbfqu5u.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <e7b33ed0-b7e8-d14d-c97a-1fe13840ee29@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

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> Am 10.10.20 um 18:45 schrieb René Scharfe:
>> Implementing hardlink support might be worthwhile anyway
>> and we would not even have to make it optional.
>
> It would be useful to have the contents duplicate blobs included only once
> in a tar file generated by git archive, but could have unexpected
> consequences.  Hard links would be extracted as such on platforms that
> support it.  Changing one of them might change all linked files, depending
> on the editor used.  That may be intended, but it could also be surprising.
> So this feature (if implemented) cannot be turned on unconditionally.

Good thinking.