don't use hardlinks as our .spec calls fdupes which converts the hardlinks to symlinks again in an unpredicatable way Index: git-1.6.0.2/Makefile =================================================================== --- git-1.6.0.2.orig/Makefile +++ git-1.6.0.2/Makefile @@ -1371,7 +1371,6 @@ endif ln git-add$X "$$execdir/git-add$X" 2>/dev/null || \ cp git-add$X "$$execdir/git-add$X"; } && \ { $(foreach p,$(filter-out git-add$X,$(BUILT_INS)), $(RM) "$$execdir/$p" && \ - ln "$$execdir/git-add$X" "$$execdir/$p" 2>/dev/null || \ ln -s "git-add$X" "$$execdir/$p" 2>/dev/null || \ cp "$$execdir/git-add$X" "$$execdir/$p" || exit;) } && \ ./check_bindir "z$$bindir" "z$$execdir" "$$bindir/git-add$X"