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pnpm 12 RC 8

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Minor Changes packageImportMethod: auto now tries hardlinks before cloning on Linux. A reflink materializes a new inode and copies extent bookkeeping inside the filesystem's metadata trees, where a hardlink is one directory entry — on btrfs this roughly halves the time an install spends materializing node_modules from a warm store. ext4 installs are unchanged (cloning was never supported there, so auto already hardl…

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