[U-Boot-Users] Changes to U-Boot Development Process

Wolfgang Denk
2007-01-18T16:25:41Z

Dear Josh,

in message <625fc13d0701180651n613aacb3lf263715d02bb7dcb@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Git can clone on a local machine and use the --reference option to
> point to the official tree. That means that the maintainer's trees
> would not need the full set of all the objects in the tree as the main
> tree will be used as a reference for those. This greatly reduces the
> storage overhead for those trees.

Right. OTOH, fro all repos hosted on the same server the object
database would consist of hardlinks anyway, which is very cheap in
terms of storage overhead.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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