Jens Lindström <jl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am not sure if we should care that deeply about them in the first >> place. > > Fine by me; I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. > >> Besides, I think you can make a hardlink to a file that you cannot >> read. > > Not always. The Linux kernel can at least be configured not to allow > it. It seems this is enabled by default in at least Debian. You learn a new thing every day, I guess. I am on Debian, I do not think I did any customization in that area, and I can hardlink just fine. > This restriction had me a bit confused when I was testing variations > here; I expected all "access denied" failures to be because of .keep > files, but in fact creating hardlinks to other files (.idx and .pack) > failed too, even though they were readable. Is it possible that you are tripping cross-device link? The reason why we have "attempt to hardlink but fall back to copy" is exactly because it is fairly common that people try local-cheap clone without realizing the source and the destination may be on separate filesystems. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html