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Re: Saving space/network on common repos

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
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Dec 17, 2014, 22:01 UTC
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I am not sure if there was any improvement since then, but Junio wrote about alternates 2 years ago http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-bit-more-sanity-to-alternates.html

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