Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello David, > as I mentioned and showed in my original e-mail: > > git checkout /path/to/repo > > triggers the problem also. So no, "cp -a" has nothing todo with it > because root is able to read _all_ files no matter who the files are > owned by and what the permissions of these files are[1]. This happens on > a _local_ fileystem. And what worries me is that git does something that > breaks the _hard link counter_ of a directory. Hm? The hard link counter is "broken" by creating or not creating subdirectories, since their ".." is a hard link. -- David Kastrup - 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