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authorGravatar https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web>2013-09-21 14:04:08 +0000
committerGravatar admin <admin@branchable.com>2013-09-21 14:04:08 +0000
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+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.
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+`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.
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+this would be especially useful for [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/forum/ikiwiki_and_big_files).
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+Thanks! --[[anarcat]]