Re: [PATCH] builtin-clone: Implement git clone as a builtin command.

> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:12 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
> > >  * --shared optimization
> > > 
> > >    This is a very easy addition to "git remote add".  You make sure 
> > >    that the added remote repository is on a local machine, and set 
> > >    up alternates to point at its object store.
> > 
> > Concur.
> > 
> > Since I want to lose that dependency on cpio on Windows (which we fake 
> > by using tar), I'll implement this in C anyway.
> 
> It's not used for --shared (which is just writing an alternates file), 
> it's used for -l, hardlinking locally cloned repos.  The code to replace 
> cpio is already in the patch I sent, look for clone_local().