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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >do you tend to clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series
> >of separate working directories
> 
> Too time consuming on consumer drives with projects the size of Linux.

git clone -l -s

is not particulary slow...