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Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:

> Well that's counter intuitive....
>
>  - reverting the original repo to one big pack speeds up the clone
>  - adding a --local --reference mirror slows it down

Neither is. Read what "--local" says in the help text of clone. It
disables the git aware clever optimization.