On Thu, Nov 13, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > How can I reduce the disk usage for multiple copies of the same repo? > > You can use --local och --shared. As you say --shared can be dangerous. > If you don't understand the man page enough to know how you should > manage your clones you should probably not use it. Perhaps its more a lack of doc how to use the result. > --local seems to be what you're looking for. I will try this. > However as a side note I'm curious about what your use case is. Why do > you need this many repos? Because I do work in each copy, poke around, or do commits and push them. > Your setup looks familiar to me for a subversion user switching to git > and trying to use git as subversion. The common usecase is not to have > multiple worktrees but to do a checkout to the worktree you need to work > on. This is possible with git since it's very fast and I recommend you > to try to use one worktree. Switching branches will invalidate timestamps, causing a full rebuild. 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