Hi, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > >> I cannot fathom why a user wants this much rope to hang themselves > >> with... > > > > The question is not so much why anyone want to do this, but _if_. > > Sorry, I think the question should be _why_. > > You can gain a sympathetic "Ah, that is sensible, and 'this much rope to > hang themselves with' comment was unwarranted" only by answering that > question. Okay, here are a couple of reasons: - all the editors that this guy tested keep the hard links, so it was kinda hard to understand why Git insists on behaving differently, - if the user asked for hard links, it is not Git's place to question that decision, - and in that user's scenario a certain file has to be shared between different projects that are all version-controlled with Git, but in different teams and with different servers they connect to. So no, you cannot even make a submodule of it, because the guys involved do not share any repository/server access. Besides, submodules are not user-friendly enough yet. Oh, and come to think of it, this could solve the old issue of "I want to track only a few files in my $HOME/". Anyway, I think that breaking hard links is not a nice habit of Git (after all, from the user's point of view the file is not created, but modified!), and I would have expected others to need a lot less arguments to see it that way, too. Ciao, 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
