From: David Kastrup Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:14:25 GMT Subject: Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial Message-ID: <858x8tw3em.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <7v3az1samx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> * With -l, as long as the source repository is healthy, it is >>> very likely that the recipient would be, too. Also it is >>> very cheap. You do not get any back-up benefit. >> >> Oh, but one does: an overzealous prune or rm -oopswrongoption in one >> repo does not hurt the other. > > That's not "back-up" benefit I was thinking about. It is more > about protecting your data from hardware failure. You > physically have bits in two places, preferrably on separate disk > drives. > > And that is what you do not get from hardlinked clone. Not at the inode/blob level, but at least the directory manipulations of one are safe from the other. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum