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Simon Richter, Fri, Nov 11, 2005 13:55:14 +0100:
> >But you shouldn't care if you have reasonably recent git everywhere:
> >symlinks and their absence already handled:
> 
> Well, I don't have working directories on USB sticks, so I don't 
> actually use the symlinks, would they be there, but I'm definitely 
> annoyed by not being able to copy a .git directory from some project 
> over and be done with it.
> 

Reasonable, perhaps. But are the git-pull and -clone _that_ slow or
awkward? Besides, you'd probably end up copying more than you'd want.

That's interesting case, btw. I'm restoring git mailing list in cc, so
it gets a bit wider of auditorium.