> Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
>
>> you can also use the file:// url format to create a complete copy and not
>> use hardlinks. see git-clone manpage.
>>
>> e.g. git clone --bare
file:///fullpathto/X y.git
>
> Thanks, that's useful; cc-ing Levend.
>
> [Side note: I wrote in the past:
>
> | In traditional newsgroups it seems to be most common to just reply to
> | the author by mail or follow-up to the group, so I wouldn't feel too
> | bad.
>
> but probably that was unclear of me. The convention on _this_ list[1] is
> to reply to all participants in a thread, so new participants do not
> need to subscribe if they don't want to. Thunderbird (e.g.) seems to
> be good at doing that for what it's worth.]
>
> [1] at least as I perceive it; please feel free to correct me if I
> have misunderstood
