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From: Seth Kriticos <seth.kriticos@googlemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How does git deal with hard links in source code?
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:33:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3858Kf6MSPALeNYrE6L=ixf=0s028+_ie_SW_@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi list,

I've got a question my google-fu and the docs were not able
to answer:

Is there a way to preserve the hard links that are within
a git repository checkout (the stuff that is tracked by the
git repository)?

The use-case I have is the following: I want to have two
different template directories for stuff in the tracked
sources: a base one and some extended ones. I want to have
the stuff from the base one hard-linked to the extended one,
so changes in the base one change all the other depending
templates too.

Now for testing I committed and pushed an instance of this
and then cloned the repository, and it ate my hard links
(checked out two separate copies of the files).

Is there a way to convince git not to eat my hard links
without some complicated scripting magic and checkout hooks?

~ Seth Kriticos

             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23  8:33 Seth Kriticos [this message]
2010-08-23  9:00 ` How does git deal with hard links in source code? Jakub Narebski

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