From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:08:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tips for improving the performance of cloning large repositories?
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In-Reply-To: <CAJ-05NPbRmyx=a+U7BK4rNShBgaXj+g-Bwc1aBDDb3N0VPBW=A@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:

> Well that's counter intuitive....
>
>  - reverting the original repo to one big pack speeds up the clone
>  - adding a --local --reference mirror slows it down

Neither is. Read what "--local" says in the help text of clone. It
disables the git aware clever optimization.