Local repos could be symlinked instead of clones

[nfultz]

In experimenting with hound, it seems like replacing local clones with symlinks works:

$cd hounddata
$ls
idx-2c81735e97e5d728  idx-3945318645f67bc6  vcs-5c02f6085efcd7c4f2c4583639339d533e78a160  vcs-765a6f802ac2c02293daeeb8ee65c9ca6b80e927
$rm -rf vcs-5c02f6085efcd7c4f2c4583639339d533e78a160/
$ln -s /media/nfultz/Elements/bitbucket.org/29decibel/ vcs-5c02f6085efcd7c4f2c4583639339d533e78a160

Since I have a lot of repos, this could potentially reduce my disk usage a lot. Is this a bad idea?

[dubiouscript]

Is this a bad idea?

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#43 (comment)

i dk tbh , but i hear less is more &&

this

replacing local clones with symlinks works

made me thunk of
https://github.com/taterbase/git-mount
that! * why copy or link when you could 💡 mount *

... i think in the past i have used the symlink method , but
#307

to configure hundreds of repos, and the Searchers may take a long time.

so at that point i stopped hounding the source

+ #214 (comment)

There have been a few attempts to add a feature to Hound where you can use an existing repository without making a copy, but Hound currently assumes that the repository files will not be edited during indexing and that's a hard thing to enforce on an external directory.

[salemhilal]

I'm going to close this issue for now. If there are outstanding questions, feel free to reopen the issue.