From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:20:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: allow --no-local to turn off local optimizations Message-ID: <7vzk8pziuk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120530111016.GB15550@sigill.intra.peff.net> Makes sense; thanks. By the way, a somewhat funny exercise I found last night is this: $ cd /var/tmp $ mkdir -p foo.xz:pub/git.git $ cd foo.xz:pub/git.git $ git init $ git commit --allow-empty -m initial $ cd /var/tmp $ git clone foo.xz:pub/git.git x This does not work as the transfer phase wants to run ssh on it.