Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> (Which admittedly is a bit odd. The reason I didn't ever seriously even >> consider monotone was that the initial import was so *incredibly* sucky, >> and took hours for the kernel. So use "-l" for benchmarks, and damn my >> "I hate hardlinking repos" idiocy). > > I would call aversion to -l a superstition, while aversion to -s > has a sound technical reasons. The latter means you need to know > what you are doing --- namely, you are making the clone still > dependent on the original. Well, I'd not call the -l aversy a complete superstition: it means that cloning a repository won't provide any redundancy worth noting against file system corruption. -- David Kastrup - 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
