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

1 messages from 2008-08-17 to 2008-08-17. Participants: Phpbb Git.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15061

## Phpbb Git, 2008-08-17 21:58

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