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Summary

The workspace upload turned every hard link into an independent copy: two names sharing one inode on the host arrived in the session as two inodes with link count 1.

Fix

add_dir_entries_inner now tracks (dev, ino) for files whose nlink > 1 during the directory walk. The first name for an inode is archived as a regular entry; every later name is emitted as an EntryType::Link entry pointing at the first archive path, so the session sees one inode with a link count of N rather than N independent copies.

When the first path does not fit the tar header's 100-byte link-name field, the upload falls back to a regular entry for the later name — the upload never fails because of a link.

Tests

Added four tests covering:

  • a hard-linked pair round-trips as one inode with link count 2
  • a single-link file is still archived as a regular entry
  • a hard link whose first name is inside an excluded directory is archived as a regular entry (no dangling link)
  • a too-long first path falls back to a regular entry and the upload succeeds

All 65 minimal-client tests pass; cargo fmt and cargo clippy -p minimal-client --no-deps -- -D warnings are clean.

Routing-Key: inbox-route/I_kwDOSUhdos8AAAABU3_nUg

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  • New Features
    • File archives now preserve hard links when possible, so linked files remain linked when restored. If a link target cannot be represented in the archive, the file is included as a regular file instead. Excluded directories are not used as link targets.

The directory-walk uploader archived every name for a hard-linked
inode as an independent regular entry, so two names sharing one inode
on the host arrived in the session as two inodes with link count 1.

Track `(dev, ino)` for files with `nlink > 1` during the walk and emit
an `EntryType::Link` entry for later names instead of a second full
copy. When the first path does not fit the header's link-name field,
fall back to a regular entry so the upload never fails because of a
link.

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The directory walker now tracks files by device and inode. It archives the first encountered name as a regular file and later names as tar hard links when possible. Tests cover single-link files, excluded names, and overlong targets.

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Hard-link archiving

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Track and archive hard links
crates/minimal-client/src/file_upload.rs
The recursive walker shares a map of hard-linked files. It writes the first encountered name as a regular file and later names as tar hard links when the target fits the header field. Otherwise, it writes another regular entry. Tests check inode preservation, single-link files, excluded names, and overlong targets.

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Uploads remain usable, but workspaces with multiple links to a file can lose some hard-link relationships. The fallback test also does not reliably protect that behavior. Both should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

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crates/minimal-client/src/file_upload.rs (1)

1204-1212: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Force the long name to be archived first and assert that the fallback produced an independent file.

The current test can pass when short.txt is archived first. The later long name then links to short.txt, so both paths exist and short.txt still has the expected body. The current read_dir loop does not sort entries.

Sorting alone is not sufficient if the fixture keeps the x... name: short.txt sorts before it. Sort entries by filename, use a long name that sorts before short.txt, and assert nlink == 1 plus the file body. file_type().is_file() or body equality alone also passes for an unpacked hard link.

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-        let long_name = "x".repeat(120);
+        let long_name = format!("{}-long.txt", "a".repeat(120));
...
         let short = stats.get("short.txt").expect("short.txt missing");
+        assert_eq!(short.2, 1, "short.txt must be an independent regular file");
+        assert_eq!(short.3.as_slice(), b"body");

Update unpack_and_stat to retain each file's contents in the returned tuple, and sort the collected read_dir entries by filename before the walker processes them.

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Review comment at @crates/minimal-client/src/file_upload.rs around lines 1204 -
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Update the test using unpack_and_stat so the long fixture name sorts before
short.txt, and make unpack_and_stat sort read_dir entries by filename before
processing them. Retain each file’s contents and link count in the collected
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Review comments at @crates/minimal-client/src/file_upload.rs:
- Around line 711-715: Update the hardlink target tracking around
hardlinks.entry so that when an overlong link target falls back to writing a
regular entry, that representable entry’s archive path replaces the unusable
target in the map. Ensure later names for the same inode can link to that entry,
while preserving the existing hardlink behavior otherwise.

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Review comments at @crates/minimal-client/src/file_upload.rs:
- Around line 1204-1212: Update the test using unpack_and_stat so the long
fixture name sorts before short.txt, and make unpack_and_stat sort read_dir
entries by filename before processing them. Retain each file’s contents and link
count in the collected stats, then assert short.txt has nlink 1 and the expected
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A regular entry written because the first name was too long to link to
now becomes the target for later names, so a third name links instead of
being copied again. The bookkeeping moves into hard_link_target, tested
in a fixed order, and the fallback stream test uses two over-long names
so it runs the fallback whatever order the walk reads them in.
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