How can I reduce the disk usage for multiple copies of the same repo? Up to now I just made copies like this, but since .git alone is already 2GB it becomes expensive: # git clone git://host/repo.git repo-master # cp -a repo-master repo-branchA # cd repo-branchA # git checkout -b branchA origin/branchA # cd - # cp -a repo-master repo-branchB # cd repo-branchB # git checkout -b branchB origin/branchB # cd - # cp -a repo-master repo-branchB-feature # cd repo-branchB-feature # git checkout -b branchB-feature origin/branchB # cd - Since each .git is almost identical I wonder if there is a reliable way to "share" it. The "git clone" man page mentions --shared as a dangerous way to do things. It does not give an advice how to manage such cloned trees. So how can I reduce the disk usage needed for the four .git dirs above? I looked around in the docs that came with my git-2.1.3 package, but found nothing that answers my question. Maybe we can workout something and add it to one of the existing docs. Thanks! Olaf -- 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