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> why not just clone twice?

Sometimes this is fine, but if the history is large enough (like in the case of the Linux kernel), it can start to get out of hand space-wise. If you have a deduplicating filesystem, that can help, but only so much.

Of course, there is a way to use clone which hardlinks the objects.



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