Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 03/09/2018 01:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> that was my understanding -- as long as the files are within >> precisely the same directory, hard links could still be used, but any >> cross-directory links (even if within the same filesystem) will use >> symlinks. is that about right? > > From what you were saying, it sounded like you thought it was a system-wide > change for how linking worked. > > Hard links can be used between directories on the same file system, but for > a package install, since you don't know how the partitions will be > configured, it's safer to to use symlinks if not in the same directory. > That's what is being changed for this package. In the git package, there aren't symlinks. Within /usr/bin, the git binaries which are identical are hardlinked to each other. And separately, within /usr/libexec/git-core, the git binaries which are identical are hardlinked to each other. For anyone really curious about the finer details on this, I would point to the upstream git Makefile¹ and the Fedora git spec file². ¹ https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile ² https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git/blob/master/f/git.spec -- Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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