From: "Andreas T.Auer" <andreas.t.auer_gtml_37453@ursus.ath.cx>
To: Jason <git@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rsync a *bunch* of git repos
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:01:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0D41E3.5020908@ursus.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120110211548.GD10255@titan.lakedaemon.net>
On 10.01.2012 22:15 Jason wrote:
> The nuts and bolts of this aren't difficult, the problem is I don't have
> a complete understanding of how git stores data. I've heard in the
> past that it uses a lot of hardlinks and softlinks. I need to make
> sure, that once I transfer the data, and reboot the machine with the new
> partition mounted under /home, that all my git repos will be okay.
>
>
As far as I know git uses hardlinks to save diskspace, but it doesn't
rely on hardlinks to work. It also works with filesystems that don't
support hardlinks.
But without hardlinks you will probably waste disk space so I recommend
the -H parameter to rsync, which preserve hardlinks, if possible. If you
have hundreds of git repos that are cloned from each other, than this
should make a difference.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 21:15 rsync a *bunch* of git repos Jason
2012-01-10 21:24 ` Seth Robertson
2012-01-10 22:00 ` Philip Oakley
2012-01-10 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-11 13:22 ` Sergio
2012-01-11 16:52 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-01-24 14:11 ` Jason
2012-01-11 8:01 ` Andreas T.Auer [this message]
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