Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

On 15 November 2012 11:40, Javier Domingo [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Andrew,

The problem about that, is that if I want to delete the first repo, I
will loose objects... Or does that repack also hard-link the objects
in other repos? I don't want to accidentally loose data, so it would
be nice that althought avoided to repack things, it would also
hardlink them.

Hi Javier, check out the section below the one I linked earlier:

How to stop sharing objects between repositories?

To copy the shared objects into the local repository, repack without the -l flag

git repack -a

Then remove the pointer to the alternate object store

rm .git/objects/info/alternates

(If the repository is edited between the two steps, it could become corrupted
when the alternates file is removed. If you're unsure, you can use git fsck to
check for corruption. If things go wrong, you can always recover by replacing
the alternates file and starting over).

Regards,

Andrew Ardill