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

From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <1197471866.9269.2.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712121103510.27959@racer.site>

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