I wish git could use COW links. I wish I could put a large binary into git and have the only underlying filesystem operation be to cp --reflink and to save the metadata. There are a few complications: How does it know which files to reflink? attributes? a size limit? What does git gc do with reflinks? Should diff-delta be reflink-aware? Perhaps it could query the fs for blocklists. Before I dive into implementing this, I'd like to get your comments and advice, to maximize the chances of success. Thanks! -- 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