Subject: bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:47:36 -0800

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Why is such behaviour desirable?

It's more logical, since it causes tar to behave as if the symlink were not 
there, and the pointed-to file was there instead.

Using -hard-dereference bloats the tar image, but if that's a price you're 
willing to pay then you have a solution to the problem.