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 theory someone could rely on the current feature although that doesn't sound so likely. Currently --force does what you request, but --force also makes xz overwrite existing files, which you might not want. If overwriting isn't an issue, then --keep --force does exactly what you want. 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. -- Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode
