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>>>>> "AG" == Andreas Gal <gal@uci.edu> writes:

AG> I am just soft-linking objects/ in the branched tree. I can live with 
AG> dangling objects, branching is extremly fast, and diskspace is cheap 
AG> anyway. The only downside is that it doesn't work too well with rsync as 
AG> network protocol,...

I usually do not symlinks myself, but doesn't "rsync -L" work
for you?