Hi, On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > BTW, we do use hardlinks on Windows; even the MsysGit installer creates > > > > them (as long as the filesystem is NTFS). So, the fallout you are > > > > expecting/hoping for will not be in the first round of MinGW port > > > > patches. ;) > > > Would it be possible to add option to an installer to _not_ install > > > git-cmd form for builtins when installing on FAT28^W FAT32? > > > > It is the InnoSetup based installer that does that. MSys has no way (yet) > > to create hard links (at least that's the state of my knowledge). > > I don't know about MSys, the runtime, but MSys's 'ln' and 'cp -l' both create > hardlinks on NTFS. And for this reason, 'git clone -l' does, too. Does it? *goestocheck* Indeed it works! (The hardest part was to verify it; seems like you have to use MSys' stat.exe, as regular Windows seems to have _no_ tool to find that out.) Thanks, Dscho - 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
