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Currently annex.thin needs hard link support to be efficient;
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it hard links the content from .git/annex/objects into the work tree.
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When hard links are not supported, two copies of checked out files exist on
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disk.
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Would it be possible to make it work w/o hard links? Note that direct mode
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does avoid two copies of files.
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IIRC the main reason for the hard link is so, when git checkout deletes a
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work tree file, the only copy of the file is not lost. Seems this would
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need a git hook run before checkout to rescue such files.
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Also some parts of git-annex's code, including `withObjectLoc`, assume
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that the .annex/objects is present, and so it would need to be changed
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to look at the work tree file. --[[Joey]]
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[[!tag needsthought]]
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