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From: Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=F8gsberg?= <krh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-clone: Implement git clone as a builtin
	command.
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:04:26 -0500
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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:12 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
...
> >  * --shared optimization
> > 
> >    This is a very easy addition to "git remote add".  You make sure that
> >    the added remote repository is on a local machine, and set up
> >    alternates to point at its object store.
> 
> Concur.
> 
> Since I want to lose that dependency on cpio on Windows (which we fake by 
> using tar), I'll implement this in C anyway.

It's not used for --shared (which is just writing an alternates file),
it's used for -l, hardlinking locally cloned repos.  The code to replace
cpio is already in the patch I sent, look for clone_local().

cheers,
Kristian