From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:09:58 GMT
Subject: Re: how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs?
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BytRtHkq1eXdEXMgjnZuDSOJs33nyQ1=xd4jtSDaZ8BA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141113111444.GA15503@aepfle.de>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> Since each .git is almost identical I wonder if there is a reliable way
> to "share" it. The "git clone" man page mentions --shared as a dangerous
> way to do things. It does not give an advice how to manage such cloned
> trees.

If you know what you are doing, you can try git-new-workdir in
contrib/workdir. A safe and reliable version of that is being worked
on, hopefully it'll be released in 2.3.0.
-- 
Duy