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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 04:22:32 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1709230418340.22644@localhost.localdomain> (raw)


  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

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-23  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-23  8:22 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-09-23 11:32 ` is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem? Torsten Bögershausen
2017-09-23 18:55 ` brian m. carlson
2017-09-24  0:12 ` Junio C Hamano

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