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Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Feb 4, 2010, 15:32 UTC
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demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
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> At $work we have a host where we have about 50-100 users each with
> their own private copies of the same repos. These are cloned froma
> remote via git/ssh and are not thus automatically hardlinking their
> object stores.
>
> This is starting to take a lot of space.

Create local mirrors of the remote repos (and update them regularily) and ask the users to borrow from them.

Andreas.
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  1. demerphqFeb 4, 2010
  2. Alex RiesenFeb 4, 2010
  3. SergioFeb 4, 2010
  4. Martin LanghoffFeb 4, 2010
  5. Andreas SchwabFeb 4, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreFeb 4, 2010

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