I am attempting to create a git repository to store all of my dotfiles and config files. My idea was to simply create hard links to all of the files I cared about and store those links in their own...

I am creating a zip archive containing two identical files at different paths. Does the zip archive format support something akin to the Unix concept of hard links? By this I mean the ability to st...

I have a series of directories on Linux and each directory contains lots of files and data. The data in those directories are automatically generated, but multiple users will need to perform more a...

What I basically would like to do is cp -Rl dir1 dir2. But as I understand it, python only provides shutils.copytree(src,dst) which actually copies the files, but has no possibility of hardlinking ...

I'm trying to copy a file using a hardlink, where the file is stored as a Django FileField. I'd like to use a hardlink to save space and copy time (no changes are expected to be made to the origina...

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 please point me to detailed infor...

To fix a bug in this answer: What's the correct name of the function to create a hard link in MSVCRT?

I can use GetFileInformationByHandle to determine the number of hard links associated with a file. How can I enumerate the paths which make up those links? For example, if C:\TEMP_1.BIN and C:\TEM...

I just wanted to clarify if a hard/symbolic link is actually a file that is created ?? I ran the command: ln source hardlink ln -s source softlink -- The ls command shows this 2 links as a file...

I've got a Win7 x64 box running Tortoise 1.0 x64 release. About Tortoise reveals that it's 1.0 "with Mercurial-1.5, Python-2.6.4, PyGTK-2.16.0, GTK-2.18.7". I've also got ActivePython 2.6 and Mercu...

I am using Mercurial under Windows XP (using the TortoiseHg distribution) and I want to use NTFS hardlinks when cloning a repository. Out of the box Mercurial does not do this. I have read that a w...