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

Google 'git preserve hard links' and it shows that git does not know how to preserve hard link structure AFAIK, perhaps by design.

Web projects of mine use hard links as follows:

www/products/index.php
www/products/dell_latitude_id577/index.php #(hard linked to above)
www/products/dell_inspiron_id323/index.php #(hard linked again to above)

me@server:www/products$ ls -l index.php
-rwxr-xr-x 3 me me 1958 Aug 22 22:10 index.php*

If I wanted to make changes to index.php I change it in one place and the hard links (product detail pages) point to the changes -- except git does not preserve this relationship during cloning and pulling on other computers.

me@server:www$ git pull

on another machine will create a new index.php for each hard link.