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On 2/9/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to not repack everything if it's not
> need?

I often cg-clone large projects over stupid protocols (http/rsync) and
then hand-edit the branches/origin or remotes/origin file to say
"git://" instead.

It's called cheating but it works great ;-)



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