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Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

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Nov 18, 2012, 17:18 UTC
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2012/11/15 Javier Domingo <javierdo1@gmail.com>
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> Is there any way to avoid this? I mean, can something be done in git,
> that it checks for (when pulling) the same objects in the other forks?

I've been using git-new-workdir (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir) for a similar problem. Maybe that's what you're searching?

Joerg.
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