Hi all, It seems `git reset --hard` recreates files that have external hard links. Is this intended? The example below highlights the behavior. I have an unchanged Git repository. When I create an (outside) hard link to a file in the repository, then `git reset --hard` re-creates the file with a new modification time and inode. This occurs on Debian 11 with Git 2.30.2 but not on Debian 10 with Git 2.20.1 > git init Initialized empty Git repository in .../git-test/.git/ > echo "test" > file.txt > git add file.txt > git commit -m "Import" [main (root-commit) f73709f] Import 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 file.txt > stat -c '%y' file.txt 2022-01-19 18:43:52.147781748 +0100 > ls -i file.txt 74458979 file.txt > ln file.txt ../file.txt > git reset --hard HEAD is now at f73709f Import > stat -c '%y' file.txt 2022-01-19 18:44:47.013167127 +0100 > ls -i file.txt 74458995 file.txt Can this behavior be avoided? Best, Michael
