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 -- 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