Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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