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Not the maintainer (thanks for the review of my PRs!). I'm also a newb when it comes to a lot of the details of tar implementations and details. Leaving a comment here so you can dismiss/hide it and it won't take up space on the main thread.
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#366? Would it make sense to spell out what "never create[ing] hardlinks" means in practice? I would appreciate that info when viewing the docs.preserve_hardlinks(bool)
be a way forward?My goal here is to better understand the library and its existing behavior and to explore and understand the possibility of ways we could improve this library or possibly the PR.