From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.29.0-rc1
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:35:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqimbfqu5u.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7b33ed0-b7e8-d14d-c97a-1fe13840ee29@web.de> (=?utf-8?Q?=22R?= =?utf-8?Q?en=C3=A9?= Scharfe"'s message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:11:11 +0200")
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> Am 10.10.20 um 18:45 schrieb René 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 once
> 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, depending
> on the editor used. That may be intended, but it could also be surprising.
> So this feature (if implemented) cannot be turned on unconditionally.
Good thinking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-09 15:58 [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.29.0-rc1 Junio C Hamano
2020-10-10 16:45 ` René Scharfe
2020-10-11 6:11 ` René Scharfe
2020-10-12 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-10-12 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-12 19:19 ` René Scharfe
2020-10-24 17:52 ` René Scharfe
2020-10-26 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
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