I understand that a local clone uses hardlinks (ln without the '-s' switch). Isn't a hardlink just a pointer to the underlying file? Removing a hardlink, even w

I understand that a local clone uses hardlinks (ln without the '-s' switch). Isn't a hardlink just a pointer to the underlying file? Removing a hardlink, even with the force switch won't delete the original version of the file in e.g. the local bare repository, or am I wrong?