From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:57:55 GMT Subject: Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory Message-ID: <81b0412b1002040157r7af2a587y9cfc7189fc8ad632@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9b18b3111002040029x1c7de0afw4a5ef883588f7a18@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 09:29, demerphq 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.