From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760C820A26 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750916AbdIWLcL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:32:11 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:64998 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbdIWLcK (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:32:10 -0400 Received: from macce.local ([195.198.252.176]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MWirL-1dtEd01SCh-00Xq4N for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:32:09 +0200 Subject: Re: is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem? To: Git Mailing list References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Torsten_B=c3=b6gershausen?= Message-ID: <94fae18a-09e5-e387-213d-d840dd5201bd@web.de> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:32:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:4Hu36yjWyYgZ7m7fLpJlXH8KyvLSX4V7IsPuBZN5X7fweXNu8o2 xAv+f2BWsliFj7h8IBkK5xz6dbeQVFzcXUmpe8m/sVnYisq8LibOcPgbV9B02O+HwH+hzZV L8nYDEanJji1GJmCZrHyuqqmg241jP9Tirv/rI8NShR5CynhJiuOZme86zsiYN8rzBIi3Oi Hou7NKb8mHXAScmrOTlVQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ZsNizzM9TJ4=:BukXecRDfwErjgqlOUre/y cqiAZNHl7kmjsbOgTwwrCAEHnyi0CBSzq3zgdUkr5BXyUthHX0XUto/MD9NJUxCRurt5yGVeg lDopuyDqhyzteThJ7sB2QcsYOo5CYMbBFx0bhAFWcDDUqa7qQTL4IBn7VItsKMCNlVl4gLhkI 4CEFh1zT1jAvntCToQ3zaKlOQzKTWHUF2GfOOhu3FPsHUz8GqCaA9Y2qJYXEWYO1gBu6XXIt9 yWhfmvdBocoitNvsY4M+fF4agQB740CIhrmnd3SUxRkJHpcq0rGrQchMJKi7kfL1KOMqAa0Lu J+t7Og5O8+BJyyjSscypPGJhMECCZSZ92mML9CS77FP/qw/ZC8C3Y2AJ+5TnzH9CRQtAPNe77 9AM0HKZg/fodgVk5p62Rl3LLp+MN5qyFMlrmoL22MXg39xWmpJj06AvnRE+7Y2dyFywyhZxDt X32AmXZjwqWdhxezyQtnBAkqlFnJ6N1pVLDwNivQnn/fxiAyf2mv/rcoJkNOgG9tk9yqX7fwC wGiwPezhM9swQSuVhkiqTVxn9HAd6DOUsu2ZN60/iWrtSBoTnuSV+7iXSPUKLiTMoT29CyYT1 R+SU6toQJfUJmk29dopCSSxtXhg5vN++vfBD5oHJba+nPwxQ2gjIsu24KkaCZaeKLao1Z8kB+ +MdpNAOiaM2zs97hEuVGbQzaGlZeZ3ovh19Tg6X3Hftgv+s8+I86coP01nU8oh8k4SxeSjktU Cfw8wajx7URcYZWhVzo03PJ7VcM4P9gawuEr/gg0Lro6fBkF3QGyRvpM8IG0nHnNn2pGLE0pU 3llaYKn0Xg492eGS8Y1CExeoQFZcRDar9a+MLrocMd+R5gSOq4= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 2017-09-23 10:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > reading "man git-clone", and i understand the mechanics of the local > protocol, so that if i run: > > $ git clone /path/to/repo > > then "files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked to save space > when possible." > > but if the repo is in a separate filesystem, or on an NFS mount, > hardlinks clearly won't work, so what happens then? does it default > all the way back to regular copies? is there no intermediate symlink > feature that would still work? (i suspect i am far from the first > person to wonder this.) > > rday > Isn't that what "--reference" is good for ? https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone or man git-clone PS: Robert P. J. Day Does not work from web.de