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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:55 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 09:29, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would i be correct in thinking that if i have to repos with an
> equivalent =C2=A0.git/objects/../..... file in them that the files ar=
e
> necessarily identical and one can be replaced by a hardlink to the
> other?

Yes, but you probably wont save as much as you'd like: think about the =
users
who *do* repack their repositories. The .pack files will be all differe=
nt.