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From: Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org>
To: Sassy Natan <sassyn@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GIT & Symbolic Links
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:05:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F64C448.5040108@pileofstuff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACHQFzEJATc2hiSdAgoGg3vssQ-CShF+89TOkzVwaf_ujYy+3w@mail.gmail.com>

Not really an answer to your question, but `git-relink` will
de-duplicate the contents of your .git directory using hardlinks.  Your
actual files will remain as big as ever, but the (potentially much
larger) git storage for older versions will take considerably less disk
space.

	- Andrew

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-17 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CACHQFzEqe-SwpCgjgGRDdzcUQW_+8-TdLsRV6KbKorvq7dJi+g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-12 16:44 ` GIT & Symbolic Links Sassy Natan
2012-03-13 10:06   ` Kevin
2012-03-17 16:00   ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-03-17 17:05   ` Andrew Sayers [this message]

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