Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> * With -l, as long as the source repository is healthy, it is >>> very likely that the recipient would be, too. Also it is >>> very cheap. You do not get any back-up benefit. >> >> Oh, but one does: an overzealous prune or rm -oopswrongoption in one >> repo does not hurt the other. > > That's not "back-up" benefit I was thinking about. It is more > about protecting your data from hardware failure. You > physically have bits in two places, preferrably on separate disk > drives. > > And that is what you do not get from hardlinked clone. Not at the inode/blob level, but at least the directory manipulations of one are safe from the other. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
