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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. +"""]] |