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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-12 12:57:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-12 12:57:18 -0400 |
| commit | ca10c06819aacc50d4423836ce51fc4486803789 (patch) | |
| tree | e96072aef36f12d28d715fd4b7396d3fea4eef4c /doc/todo/wishlist__58___use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn | |
| parent | 024dd384140b25f69defd762e41fd5e4af4f3567 (diff) | |
rename files containing :
This is mostly to let the repo check out on windows w/o using cygwin's git.
But, bash completion is also crap with : , so ..
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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist__58___use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist__58___use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4b0694422 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist__58___use_hardlinks_for_local_clones.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +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). + +This is a [[wishlist]], but I would also welcome implementation pointers to do this myself, thanks! --[[anarcat]] + +> [[dup|done]] |