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Added a comment: hardlinking identical files in annex may break invariants

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
subject="hardlinking identical files in annex may break invariants"
date="2019-11-30T21:36:38Z"
content="""
P.S. Re: hardlinking identical files -- git-annex [[keeps track of inodes|todo/inode_based_clean_filter_for_less_surprising_git_add]] where contents is stored, so deleting a file might make that info stale. Also, dropping one key will drop another key's contents without updating [[location_tracking]] info. And dropping then getting files would lead to two separate copies again. So I wouldn't recommend that.
See also [[tips/local_caching_of_annexed_files]].
"""]]