Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: >> $ git clone -l --no-hardlinks --bare . /path/to/usb/stick > > I've never used -l --no-hardlinks when creating repos on my usb stuck. > vfat filesystems don't support hard links and you can't make use of > hard links across filesystems.
That's true :) I just copy this from my every-day-git.org. Everything I don't work on anymore goes there to keep the number of workspaces at a minimum. I tend to start a lot of little projects as test balloons (or just out of curiousity) and keep them for reference. I'm always afraid to lose some trick I found and that does not make it into one of my real projects :) But even then, --no-hardlinks is not needed. It's a bad habbit even, since I waste disk space that way. Removing .git in my workspace will never remove any of the cloned (local, on same filesystem) repos, since files _are_ hard links, and the data is reachable as long, as at least one hard link exists (that's the difference between hard links and symbolic links). At least that's how I understand hard links on Linux. `du' does take that into account: $ mkdir test $ cd test $ touch file.c $ cat /some/file > link.c $ du -h 16K . $ ln file.c link.c $ du -h 16K . $ ln link.c link2.c $ du -h 16K . $ ls -l insgesamt 36 -rw-r--r-- 3 sebastian sebastian 8988 1. Mär 16:02 file.c -rw-r--r-- 3 sebastian sebastian 8988 1. Mär 16:02 link2.c -rw-r--r-- 3 sebastian sebastian 8988 1. Mär 16:02 link.c No matter how many hard links I add: the disk usage stays the same. One more point for git! OK, I'll adjust my habbits :) Best, -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Http: www.emma-stil.de _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
