On 11/13/24 11:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Is there a way to disable that? These symbolic-links pretending to > be installed files are quite annoying---when the target file is lost, > the links become useless. INSTALL_SYMLINKS=1 in the existing Makefile is of course the one true way... (and really, why would you expect the target file to be lost for any reason). That being said, it doesn't appear the patch series implements any of the other multiplicity of choice in what kind of filesystem object gets used for multiple copies of the same file. No hardlink or copy support has been rigged up. (Meson doesn't have a builtin function for performing hardlinks, by the way. I don't really think I've seen people desire to do this outside of one project being discussed right here right now. hardlinks are mainly good at fooling people who look at them into not understanding the association between the two, and at breaking across multiple filesystems. It's definitely impossible to get it right automatically, and asking users to make an informed choice here is just not something that projects other than git seem to find valuable, for whatever reason. So basically, it's fairly understandable that meson hasn't previously added hardlink support.) -- Eli Schwartz
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