On 2012-06-10 Ariel wrote:
xz won't compress a file if it has hard links, even if --keep is
specified.
I think this should be changed since if the file is not being deleted
hard links don't matter.
You aren't the first one requesting this change. I'm not sure if it is
safe to change it. In
Lasse Collin wrote...
If --keep is modified, I think it should also allow (de)compression of
symlinks and setuid, setgid, and sticky files. This way it would match
what --force does.
I would like to hear what people think about this.
A while ago I considered asking for a few --force-*
