From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:32:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94fae18a-09e5-e387-213d-d840dd5201bd@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1709230418340.22644@localhost.localdomain>
On 2017-09-23 10:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> reading "man git-clone", and i understand the mechanics of the local
> protocol, so that if i run:
>
> $ git clone /path/to/repo
>
> then "files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked to save space
> when possible."
>
> but if the repo is in a separate filesystem, or on an NFS mount,
> hardlinks clearly won't work, so what happens then? does it default
> all the way back to regular copies? is there no intermediate symlink
> feature that would still work? (i suspect i am far from the first
> person to wonder this.)
>
> rday
>
Isn't that what "--reference" is good for ?
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
or
man git-clone
PS:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Does not work from web.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-23 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-23 8:22 is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem? Robert P. J. Day
2017-09-23 11:32 ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2017-09-23 18:55 ` brian m. carlson
2017-09-24 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
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