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Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2010, 09:57 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 09:29, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would i be correct in thinking that if i have to repos with an
> equivalent  .git/objects/../..... file in them that the files are
> necessarily identical and one can be replaced by a hardlink to the
> other?

Yes, but you probably wont save as much as you'd like: think about the users who *do* repack their repositories. The .pack files will be all different.

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  5. Andreas SchwabFeb 4, 2010
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