Git and hard links

Question

Considering that Git does not recognize symbolic links that point outside of the repository, is there any problem using hard links?

Could Git break them? Can you pl

Answer 1

From this msysgit issue

Junction points are not symbolic links; therefore, symbolic links are simply unsupported in msysGit.

Also, hard links were never tracked by Git.

The issue were Windows-oriented (since it is about msysgit) and debate about the potential support of symlink.
But the comment about hard link concerns Git in general.