On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: >> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository >> tracking the single file .zit.file/file, which is just a hard link to >> file. > > git breaks hard links, mind you! (Just in case you check out older > versions and you wonder why your "real" file is not updated). > > But there's a recent patch by Dscho floating around that takes care of the > hard link case. I feared that the hardlink choice was not the best one. I would definitely prefer finding a solution that didn't depend on hardlinks: not only there would be no worry about breaking them, it'd also be more portable. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta -- 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
