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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2013-09-25 17:14:28 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-09-25 17:14:28 +0000 |
| commit | 7d53773e0f0e4a634a48f376fd6340990fd8b35d (patch) | |
| tree | 6b224df1a05e3170c62c5ac0039571ba17ec4b59 /doc/todo | |
| parent | 3b59b3bc4426ff284e34c5cb92338b82ebb431ba (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones/comment_1_85064fafe472a5bd395d60ce8f7acb56._comment b/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones/comment_1_85064fafe472a5bd395d60ce8f7acb56._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ef5f8414 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones/comment_1_85064fafe472a5bd395d60ce8f7acb56._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="4.152.108.220" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-09-25T17:14:28Z" + content=""" +git-annex uses cp --reflink=auto. So on a filesystem supporting COW file copies, like btrfs, `git annex get` will not use any disk space when getting from the same filesystem. + +I do not like the idea of using hardlinks, because changing the file in one repository would change it in the other, which may not be desired. + +[[union_mounting]] seems to cover this item pretty well, so I will close this as a duplicate. +"""]] |