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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:27:41 -0700

> Side note.  Earlier you said:
> 
>    master.kernel.org just upgraded to git-1.5.1.4 and I notice
>    that doing something like this:
> 
>            git clone --bare -n -l -s ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git test-2.6.git
> 
>    is no longer an instantaneous operation, it seems to be doing a lot
>    of stuff now:
> 
> But I do not see any difference between v1.5.1.3 and v1.5.1.4 in
> this area.  In fact, that get_repo_base() shell function has not
> changed since v0.99.

Correct.  I happened to create and start using that symlink
around the same time they upgraded, that's why I made that
(false) connection.

There is no connection between git version and this problem, it's just
the symlink thing.