From 2fdf0b805d2fb49e7531a0fbc49c068f3e311801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catherine <whitequark@whitequark.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:01:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add hardlink support for tar archive upload.

"Why the fuck would anybody want that", you could reasonably ask.
Well, most wouldn't want this. However, if you wanted to use git-pages
to deduplicate your backups, you might find it that some backups
include hardlinks.

"Why the fuck would anybody put their backups in git-pages", you could
even more reasonably ask. Well, almost nobody would! However, tarsnap
doesn't let you download deduplicated data (even though it deduplicates
data in storage), restic can't ingest tarballs, I didn't have
a partition I could format for btrfs, and git-pages performed much
better than alternatives like juicefs.

In the end this is correct and not expensive to do, just very niche.
---
 src/extract.go | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/extract.go b/src/extract.go
index 5fbb1e3..2cf20d6 100644
--- a/src/extract.go
+++ b/src/extract.go
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ func ExtractTar(ctx context.Context, reader io.Reader, oldManifest *Manifest) (*
 	index := IndexManifestByGitHash(oldManifest)
 	missing := []string{}
 	manifest := NewManifest()
+	hardLinks := map[string]*Entry{}
 	for {
 		header, err := archive.Next()
 		if err == io.EOF {
@@ -107,11 +108,13 @@ func ExtractTar(ctx context.Context, reader io.Reader, oldManifest *Manifest) (*
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("tar: %s: %w", fileName, err)
 			}
-			AddFile(manifest, fileName, fileData)
+			entry := AddFile(manifest, fileName, fileData)
+			hardLinks[header.Name] = entry
 			dataBytesTransferred += int64(len(fileData))
 		case tar.TypeSymlink:
 			entry := addSymlinkOrBlobReference(
 				manifest, fileName, header.Linkname, index, &missing)
+			hardLinks[header.Name] = entry
 			switch {
 			case entry == nil:
 				// unresolved blob reference
@@ -120,6 +123,12 @@ func ExtractTar(ctx context.Context, reader io.Reader, oldManifest *Manifest) (*
 			default:
 				dataBytesTransferred += int64(len(header.Linkname)) // actual symlink
 			}
+		case tar.TypeLink:
+			if entry, found := hardLinks[header.Linkname]; found {
+				manifest.Contents[fileName] = entry
+			} else {
+				AddProblem(manifest, fileName, "tar: invalid hardlink %q", header.Linkname)
+			}
 		case tar.TypeDir:
 			AddDirectory(manifest, fileName)
 		default: