Ikiwiki’s definitely a bit weird, but I’ve been experimenting with git-annex recently and it worked fine every time I commented. Seems like it’s chugging along: https://git-annex.branchable.com/recentchanges/
When does it use hard links? As far as I remember it used symlinks unless you used something like annex.hardlink (described in the man page: https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex/)
When does it use hard links? As far as I remember it used symlinks unless you used something like annex.hardlink (described in the man page: https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex/)