Re: Multiple checkout copies

[Richard Stallman]

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I wrote

  > Doesn't 'git clone' download a copy of the whole repository?
  > > I thought that is what it did.

and you answered

  > When you do a "git checkout" of an existing git repository it will
  > hard-link the files in .git/objects so that they are shared between the
  > repositories.

How does one get from the one t the other?  I am lost.

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