René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > Am 10.10.20 um 18:45 schrieb René Scharfe: >> Implementing hardlink support might be worthwhile anyway >> and we would not even have to make it optional. > > It would be useful to have the contents duplicate blobs included only once > in a tar file generated by git archive, but could have unexpected > consequences. Hard links would be extracted as such on platforms that > support it. Changing one of them might change all linked files, depending > on the editor used. That may be intended, but it could also be surprising. > So this feature (if implemented) cannot be turned on unconditionally. Good thinking.
