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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives,...

Yup, I think I've mentioned that one as one of "the mostly
unimplementable but would be very nice to have crazy wishlist
items" some time ago.  What people would want is not a "shallow"
clone, but a "lazy" clone, and in the ideal world that would
obviously be a nice thing to have.