From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:55:17 GMT
Subject: Re: libreoffice merge(tool?) issue #3 ...
Message-ID: <993F66D7-7659-4AA5-9931-1EB66CAA01DB@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1298388877.32648.171.camel@lenovo-w500>


On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:

> PS. of course, perhaps this is 'just me' - for space / time /
> simplicty / certainty reasons, I do a lot of "cp -lR foo/.git baa/" to
> duplicate trees - but AFAIK all git operations are atomic and use
> renames rather than in-place re-writing: right ?

FYI: `git clone foo bar` will use hard-links to copy the object files and is both very fast and space efficient.  (See the description of `--local` in git-clone(1), which is used by default for local repositories since git 1.5.3.)  It's also guaranteed to work while the correctness of `cp -lR` depends on implementation details of git.

~~ Brian