Re: propagating repo corruption across clone

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > There are basically three levels of transport that can be used on a
> > local machine:
> >
> >   1. Hard-linking (very fast, no redundancy).
> >
> >   2. Byte-for-byte copy (medium speed, makes a separate copy of the
> >      data, but does not check the integrity of the original).
> >
> >   3. Regular git transport, creating a pack (slowest, but should include
> >      redundancy checks).
> >
> > Using --no-hardlinks turns off (1), but leaves (2) as an option.  I
> > think the documentation in "git clone" could use some improvement in
> > that area.
> 
> Not only git-clone. How git-fetch and git-push verify the new pack
> should also be documented. I don't think many people outside the
> contributor circle know what is done (and maybe how) when data is
> received from outside.