Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization
On 15 November 2012 11:40, Javier Domingo <javierdo1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Andrew,
>
> The problem about that, is that if I want to delete the first repo, I
> will loose objects... Or does that repack also hard-link the objects
> in other repos? I don't want to accidentally loose data, so it would
> be nice that althought avoided to repack things, it would also
> hardlink them.
Hi Javier, check out the section below the one I linked earlier:
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> How to stop sharing objects between repositories?
>
> To copy the shared objects into the local repository, repack without the -l flag
>
> git repack -a
>
> Then remove the pointer to the alternate object store
>
> rm .git/objects/info/alternates
>
> (If the repository is edited between the two steps, it could become corrupted
> when the alternates file is removed. If you're unsure, you can use git fsck to
> check for corruption. If things go wrong, you can always recover by replacing
> the alternates file and starting over).
Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>