From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:00:16 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Test suite: lib t-untar of an edited tartree: do not hardlink
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Test suite: lib t-untar of an edited tartree: do not hardlink

Some of the tools we use, it turns out, do not update properly: they
overwrite in place.  This can cause inadvertant changes to a tartree
opened for editing.
---

diff --git a/tests/lib b/tests/lib
index 7f459aa2..48bc2373 100644
--- a/tests/lib
+++ b/tests/lib
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ t-untar () {
 	local tarfile=$1.tar
 	local edittree=$1.edit
 	if test -d "$edittree"; then
-		cp -al "$edittree"/* .
+		cp -a "$edittree"/* .
 	else
 		tar xf "$tarfile"
 	fi