Not really an answer to your question, but `git-relink` will de-duplicate the contents of your .git directory using hardlinks. Your actual files will remain as big as ever, but the (potentially much larger) git storage for older versions will take considerably less disk space. - Andrew -- 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