Re: the meaning of keephardlinks

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Hi,

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Geoff Russell wrote:

> I'm curious about what keephardlinks means.
> 
> If I do: "ln X Y ; git add Y ; git commit" in my origin and then
> "git pull" in my cloned repository,
> should I get a hard linked file in the clone
> when core.keephardlinks is set to true?

Nope.

It means that if you have a hard link locally, it will stay a hard link 
(and if it is modified, the other linked files will obviously change, 
too).

Note that this feature is not even in 'next'.

Ciao,
Dscho

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