From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:32:08 GMT
Subject: Re: is there a "symlink" option for cloning a repo in a separate filesystem?
Message-ID: <94fae18a-09e5-e387-213d-d840dd5201bd@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1709230418340.22644@localhost.localdomain>

On 2017-09-23 10:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   reading "man git-clone", and i understand the mechanics of the local
> protocol, so that if i run:
> 
>   $ git clone /path/to/repo
> 
> then "files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked to save space
> when possible."
> 
>   but if the repo is in a separate filesystem, or on an NFS mount,
> hardlinks clearly won't work, so what happens then? does it default
> all the way back to regular copies? is there no intermediate symlink
> feature that would still work? (i suspect i am far from the first
> person to wonder this.)
> 
> rday
> 

Isn't that what "--reference" is good for ?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

or

man git-clone

PS:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Does not work from web.de