[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="lealanko"
 subject="comment 5"
 date="2015-09-06T13:26:49Z"
 content="""
> you can \"git clone --shared\" and this will set up a clone of a repository in which git-annex will use hardlinks

Copying files from the shared origin repository to the clone will create a hardlink, yes. But copying a file from the clone to the origin will still create a physical copy, even though the situation is quite comparable. Could hardlink support be added in this direction as well?
"""]]