Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

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> FWIW, I'm thinking about changing the cpio -p (passthrough) part to use
> 'cp -l --parents --target-directory=...' instead of tar; this gives us
> hard links, even on NTFS. But it needs GNU's cp, of course.

Yeah, that's the reason it is not appropriate than cpio, even if
we forget about Windows.
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