Using git on / for configuration files

[Eli Billauer]

As far as I know, there is no way git can tell the difference between a 
hard link to a file (or should I say inode?) and the "original". I'm not 
even sure there is a way to tell which one is which (maybe some raw 
dumping of the file system's binary data?).

This way or another, hard links are not allowed for directories on a 
system that wants to stay sane. So this doesn't help much.

Thanks anyhow. :)

On 06/09/2012 09:33 AM, Tomer Cohen wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il 
> <mailto:eli at billauer.co.il>> wrote:
>
>     I tried to symlink /boot/grub/ and got one single file (the
>     symbolic link itself). Some googling immediately revealed that
>     making git follow symlinks is a popular question, with a typical
>     answer that git doesn't like to do that (or can't do that).
>
>
> Even if you're right, there is no reason why git won't follow hardlinks.
>
> -- 
> Tomer Cohen
> http://tomercohen.com



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