From: Stefan Beller Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:01:55 GMT Subject: Re: Saving space/network on common repos Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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