Re: [PATCH] perf: work around the tested repo having an index.lock

> > Is a local clone really much slower these days? Wouldn't it is use
> > hard links too?
> > By the way the many properties that are preserved might not be worth
> > preserving as they could make results depend a lot on the current
> > state of the original repo.
> 
> AFAICT from some quick testing it'll hardlink the objects/ dir, so
> e.g. you preserve the loose objects. Making the results depend on the
> state of the original repo is a feature, but perhaps it should be opt
> in. It's very useful to be able to take a repo that's accrued e.g. a
> month's worth of refs & loose objects and test that v.s. a fresh
> clone.
> 
> But there are other things that ever a hardlink local clone doesn't
> preserve which might be worth preserving...