On Jan 24 2022, Michael Herrmann wrote: > My suspicion is that Git keeps a cache of the stat(...) result of > files. An additional hard link increases the .st_nlink count of this > struct. `git reset` compares the cached stat(...) values to the actual > ones and sees that one has changed. `git status` does the same but is > smart enough to realize that the additional hard link does not change > anything. It writes this to the cache. `git reset` should also be > smart! See the core.trustctime config. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
