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SubjectRe: git, hardlinks and backups
Hi!

> > I know this may be stupid, but...
> >
> > I'm backing up my linux kernel trees, and found out that backup (done
> > by rsync) is twice as big as original. That's quite bad... it is
> > because git uses hardlinks heavily but rsync can't preserve them.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure someone hit this before... what is the trick?
>
> The -H option of rsync?

Okay, I was blind, sorry.

For those who made same mistake... utility called freedups should be
able to clean that up.
Pavel


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