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-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AA21F4B4 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2403784AbgJLQfd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:51978 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2390442AbgJLQfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:31 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22786F052D; Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=309Bf23onklJ 8XVg/A5D7bDXGlc=; b=L3aD4fxq4eCa4HtwFJQ2QTr7rxiRXcG9GFy9BQwDo6jW XLx+1JiC7Aag3UmCclxpoMLUJz3mvI41i/v9/ao0zyYmUPSb5xWF8k3lVYoelnRB GCpP7bKkBBaWuIyMYSB3GyyaWzD/QnnxRdzM/4n7p4bgjNEMkSvsA/Rh0ALmjYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=ltLjrx P5Hlk/K8qeCwxQF9SQFRXHvXXqEg6krdjeYU23ktXBjtYljHd+iBZSqGThTwf3Yz +4it6wUEQoMGl8bS4ID2ecQhTbTW6NPhScvG+hl/tUbNRJuhuiWDfHAXCL5gEBdr SFLjT3epHL93faLfOPwo/npbwIbsAxfmnH0uE= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1F5F052C; Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52D27F052B; Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9?= Scharfe Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.29.0-rc1 References: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:35:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22R?= =?utf-8?Q?en=C3=A9?= Scharfe"'s message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:11:11 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: EF4953C2-0CA8-11EB-A2C8-E43E2BB96649-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe writes: > Am 10.10.20 um 18:45 schrieb Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe: >> Implementing hardlink support might be worthwhile anyway >> and we would not even have to make it optional. > > It would be useful to have the contents duplicate blobs included only o= nce > in a tar file generated by git archive, but could have unexpected > consequences. Hard links would be extracted as such on platforms that > support it. Changing one of them might change all linked files, depend= ing > on the editor used. That may be intended, but it could also be surpris= ing. > So this feature (if implemented) cannot be turned on unconditionally. Good thinking.