From: Andrew Sayers Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:05:12 GMT Subject: Re: GIT & Symbolic Links Message-ID: <4F64C448.5040108@pileofstuff.org> In-Reply-To: Not really an answer to your question, but `git-relink` will de-duplicate the contents of your .git directory using hardlinks. Your actual files will remain as big as ever, but the (potentially much larger) git storage for older versions will take considerably less disk space. - Andrew