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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:47:36 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 |
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
Why is such behaviour desirable?
It's more logical, since it causes tar to behave as if the symlink were not there, and the pointed-to file was there instead.
Using -hard-dereference bloats the tar image, but if that's a price you're willing to pay then you have a solution to the problem.
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