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Hard-linked trees with git?

Subject: Hard-linked trees with git?

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3 messages between Oct 18, 2005 and Oct 19, 2005.

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Krzysztof Halasa· Oct 18, 2005, 20:18 UTC · lore

Hi,

Are hard-linked working trees possible with git? Anybody doing that?

Or: is it possible to have some constant file timestamps, so that
changing the HEAD to something and returning to the old HEAD
(say, with hard resets) restores the old timestamps?

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Krzysztof Halasa

Junio C Hamano· Oct 18, 2005, 20:52 UTC · re: Krzysztof Halasa · lore

Re: Hard-linked trees with git?

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> Or: is it possible to have some constant file timestamps, so that
> changing the HEAD to something and returning to the old HEAD
> (say, with hard resets) restores the old timestamps?

That would screw up 'make'.

Krzysztof Halasa· Oct 19, 2005, 11:23 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Hard-linked trees with git?

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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>> Or: is it possible to have some constant file timestamps, so that
>> changing the HEAD to something and returning to the old HEAD
>> (say, with hard resets) restores the old timestamps?
>
> That would screw up 'make'.

Not if the old timestamps matched the old files and if you make sure you don't mix different branches with one object tree (i.e., you always switch to correct HEAD before building).

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Krzysztof Halasa