Add support for hard links

instruction.go

@@ -122,7 +122,12 @@ func (instruction *LinkInstruction) RunAsync(status chan (error)) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	err := os.Symlink(instruction.Source, instruction.Target)
+	var err error
+	if *hard {
+		err = os.Link(instruction.Source, instruction.Target)
+	} else {
+		err = os.Symlink(instruction.Source, instruction.Target)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		status <- fmt.Errorf("failed creating symlink between %s%s%s and %s%s%s with error %s%+v%s", SourceColor, instruction.Source, DefaultColor, TargetColor, instruction.Target, DefaultColor, ErrorColor, err, DefaultColor)
 		return

main.go

@@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ var DirRegex, _ = regexp.Compile(`^(.+?)[/\\]sync$`)
 var FileRegex, _ = regexp.Compile(`^sync$`)
 var programName = os.Args[0]
 
+var hard *bool
+
 func main() {
 	recurse := flag.String("r", "", "recurse into directories")
 	file := flag.String("f", "", "file to read instructions from")
 	debug := flag.Bool("d", false, "debug")
+	hard = flag.Bool("h", false, "create hard links instead")
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	if *debug {