From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2839B1F453 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729107AbfA3LlQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:41:16 -0500 Received: from nwk-aaemail-lapp01.apple.com ([17.151.62.66]:53926 "EHLO nwk-aaemail-lapp01.apple.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728720AbfA3LlP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:41:15 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (nwk-aaemail-lapp01.apple.com [127.0.0.1]) by nwk-aaemail-lapp01.apple.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x0UBagRj014109; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:08 -0800 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apple.com; h=mime-version : content-transfer-encoding : content-type : subject : from : in-reply-to : date : cc : message-id : references : to; s=20180706; bh=zpZtYTB9vgShPipAJ7eS4hzVpDJVI3nJLIqFDAmPsVE=; b=fhVqO2d81n8YXmZkUEsZQ+pSgu95S1TGNZP75uo+7rOmwi3XcXACtlLi2T8YBbX9LmE7 dLki6Q9u68pAH5PVJ687S6UwxxbqU82TkuYB9srrT5FzZoXVLBh71kp8E+qAAOV57OOg MOPJJZWjF+uhvfIr2Hn+8DYcd9IhvBx7LpnTkMyef7lCydl3ml6LATpY1X9VwHKZGBgl +jXIj7crdBg4Io3KD52cFMhIXAzZ+s4a6ikA2NkocZZJ9v45M/YeW9v/vW9nPtYixJgZ EDJ+DY/cZQtOolUIvrQF8ZMfs8j8jUV9LylWD2hP/r/zFCpCl/8+BbHf0FaYr0YQ2hss hw== Received: from ma1-mtap-s03.corp.apple.com (ma1-mtap-s03.corp.apple.com [17.40.76.7]) by nwk-aaemail-lapp01.apple.com with ESMTP id 2q8qc821cb-6 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:08 -0800 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com (nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com [17.128.113.11]) by ma1-mtap-s03.corp.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0.2.3.20181024 64bit (built Oct 24 2018)) with ESMTPS id <0PM500BZZ74G9H90@ma1-mtap-s03.corp.apple.com>; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from process_viserion-daemon.nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com by nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0.2.3.20181024 64bit (built Oct 24 2018)) id <0PM5000006UNDC00@nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com>; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:07 -0800 (PST) X-Va-A: X-Va-T-CD: 1d4b20a60f75d9bb77c59cc55fa1c1c2 X-Va-E-CD: 4b191ea47c869588dbea83c34d5f132f X-Va-R-CD: de96b9fcc174794f3cefb75163f7efd9 X-Va-CD: 0 X-Va-ID: a295a4bd-c322-47f3-aec2-2127d154784c X-V-A: X-V-T-CD: 1d4b20a60f75d9bb77c59cc55fa1c1c2 X-V-E-CD: 4b191ea47c869588dbea83c34d5f132f X-V-R-CD: de96b9fcc174794f3cefb75163f7efd9 X-V-CD: 0 X-V-ID: 4be6cd70-7996-4ab9-ba39-2528ca5161b0 Received: from process_milters-daemon.nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com by nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0.2.3.20181024 64bit (built Oct 24 2018)) id <0PM5000006UICD00@nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com>; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:07 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-01-30_09:,, signatures=0 Received: from [17.234.17.81] (unknown [17.234.17.81]) by nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0.2.3.20181024 64bit (built Oct 24 2018)) with ESMTPS id <0PM5007IA74ICU10@nwk-relayp-sz03.apple.com>; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH (Apple Git) 09/13] Use symbolic links rather than hard links for files in libexec From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia In-reply-to: <20190130095006.GC24387@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:41:06 -0800 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net Message-id: <230CA858-D709-4142-9563-20A4887F2ED8@apple.com> References: <20190129193818.8645-1-jeremyhu@apple.com> <20190129193818.8645-10-jeremyhu@apple.com> <20190130095006.GC24387@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> To: "brian m. carlson" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.1) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-01-30_09:,, signatures=0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > On Jan 30, 2019, at 01:50, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:38:15AM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: >> See > > It's my understanding that Radars aren't public. Could you summarize the > reasons behind this change in the commit message for those of us who > don't have access to view this issue? There was a bug in some tool in our packaging pipeline that resulted in hardlinks not being preserved. That was fixed, but I decided to leave these as symlinks anyways in case users did a file operation on Xcode.app that didn't preserve hard links. The point here is that it would probably be nice to have hard vs soft be a configuration option.