Re: propagating repo corruption across clone

Rich Fromm [off-list ref] writes:

Apologies if my questions are considered slightly off topic -- I'm not
positive if this is supposed to be a list for developers, and not users.

The list is both for users and developers.

However, I think there may be room for some additional clarity in the docs. 
The --local option in git-config(1) says "When the repository to clone from
is on a local machine, this flag bypasses the normal "git aware" transport
mechanism".  But there's no mention of the consequences of this transport
bypass.

Yeah, I would not mind a patch to update the documentation for
"clone --local" and rsync transport to say something about
byte-for-byte copying of broken repository.

Thanks.