Re: msysGit on FAT32

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

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BTW, we do use hardlinks on Windows; even the MsysGit installer creates
them (as long as the filesystem is NTFS). So, the fallout you are
expecting/hoping for will not be in the first round of MinGW port
patches. ;)

Would it be possible to add option to an installer to _not_ install
git-cmd form for builtins when installing on FAT28^W FAT32?

It is the InnoSetup based installer that does that.  MSys has no way (yet)
to create hard links (at least that's the state of my knowledge).

I don't know about MSys, the runtime, but MSys's 'ln' and 'cp -l' both create
hardlinks on NTFS. And for this reason, 'git clone -l' does, too.

Does it?  *goestocheck* Indeed it works!  (The hardest part was to verify 
it; seems like you have to use MSys' stat.exe, as regular Windows seems to 
have _no_ tool to find that out.)

Thanks,
Dscho