On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: > PS. of course, perhaps this is 'just me' - for space / time / > simplicty / certainty reasons, I do a lot of "cp -lR foo/.git baa/" to > duplicate trees - but AFAIK all git operations are atomic and use > renames rather than in-place re-writing: right ? FYI: `git clone foo bar` will use hard-links to copy the object files and is both very fast and space efficient. (See the description of `--local` in git-clone(1), which is used by default for local repositories since git 1.5.3.) It's also guaranteed to work while the correctness of `cp -lR` depends on implementation details of git. ~~ Brian-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html