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| author |  https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web> | 2013-09-21 14:04:08 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-09-21 14:04:08 +0000 |
| commit | cd9ff98044dd9f555cbbaa7e27e4c93ea8bea1b1 (patch) | |
| tree | b18108fb75d8db7109bab477db408a1805c66908 | |
| parent | d62471698a9377d5b7a1b01d82151373afad8e62 (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f8cec15db --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +as far as I know, if you `git clone` locally a git-annex enabled repository, it will not have all the files available. you would need to use `git annex get` and all files would be copied over, wasting a significant amount of space. + +`git-clone` has this `--local` flags which hardlinks objects in `.git/objects`, but also, maybe more interestingly, has a `--shared` option to simply tell git to look in another repo for objects. it seems to me git-annex could leverage those functionalities to avoid file duplication when using local repositories. + +this would be especially useful for [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/forum/ikiwiki_and_big_files). + +Thanks! --[[anarcat]] |