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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Mar 5, 2008, 00:03 UTC
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What, exactly, is -l supposed to do for clone? As far as I can tell, we automatically do the local magic if we can. Would it be okay to make "local" default to "if possible", have "-l" mean error if not possible, and have "--no-local" able to avoid using local magic even if we could use it?

	-Daniel
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