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[newbe question]: why is git-upload-archive a copy and not hardlink?

Subject: [newbe question]: why is git-upload-archive a copy and not hardlink?

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One message between Aug 17, 2008 and Aug 17, 2008.

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Phpbb Git· Aug 17, 2008, 21:58 UTC · lore

When running "make install", the install procedure creates the executable "git" in the bin directory, and many dash commands in the libexec/git-core are created as hardlinks. however, in the "bin" directory there's a file named git-upload-archive which appears to be a copy of git instead of a hardlink. This is not of utmost importance, I was just curious as to the reason for this extra copy of git in the bin directory.

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