the meaning of keephardlinks

> I'm curious about what keephardlinks means.
> 
> If I do: "ln X Y ; git add Y ; git commit" in my origin and then
> "git pull" in my cloned repository,
> should I get a hard linked file in the clone
> when core.keephardlinks is set to true?

> Hi,
>
>
>  On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
>  > I'm curious about what keephardlinks means.
>  >
>  > If I do: "ln X Y ; git add Y ; git commit" in my origin and then
>  > "git pull" in my cloned repository,
>  > should I get a hard linked file in the clone
>  > when core.keephardlinks is set to true?
>
>
> Nope.
>
>  It means that if you have a hard link locally, it will stay a hard link
>  (and if it is modified, the other linked files will obviously change,
>  too).
>
>  Note that this feature is not even in 'next'.
>
>  Ciao,
>  Dscho