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Bug#602314: please let unison create hardlinks



also sprach Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> [2010.11.03.1838 +0100]:
> I am not sure to understand what you ask. Hardlinks and copies are not
> the same thing. AFAIU, if you hardlink a file to a different filename
> and make a change to one of these files, it will also appear in the
> other file. You don't have this effect with copies. If the remote file
> is not an hardlink, there is no point making the local file an hardlink.

You are right. I guess what I am looking for is the ability to
synchronise hardlinks with unison.

Otoh, an option to hardlink identical files on either side of the
sync might be useful.

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