Hi Brian, First - it seems that the issue here was entirely bogus, not least because we had a bug with re-writing these makefiles as we checked them in; so hopefully only 2 issues pending ;-) Anyhow - I tried your kind advice: On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 10:55 -0500, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > 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. Sounds like just what I need. Unfortunately, it didn't clone some of the pieces I needed; eg. other configured remotes, I ended up with just 'origin' - which was unexpected (and less wonderful than cp -lR ;-). Is that a feature ? Thanks, Michael. -- michael.meeks@xxxxxxxxxx <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- 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