Re: [PATCH] builtin-clone: Implement git clone as a builtin command.

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:12 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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 * --shared optimization

   This is a very easy addition to "git remote add".  You make sure that
   the added remote repository is on a local machine, and set up
   alternates to point at its object store.

Concur.

Since I want to lose that dependency on cpio on Windows (which we fake by 
using tar), I'll implement this in C anyway.

It's not used for --shared (which is just writing an alternates file),
it's used for -l, hardlinking locally cloned repos.  The code to replace
cpio is already in the patch I sent, look for clone_local().

cheers,
Kristian