# No local cloning for insteadOf URLs

1 messages from 2014-01-20 to 2014-01-20. Participants: Hannes Mezger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35696

## Hannes Mezger, 2014-01-20 17:06

Subject: No local cloning for insteadOf URLs
Message-ID: <52DD5784.1000601@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/52DD5784.1000601%40gmail.com

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Hi there,

on Linux I'm using the config option url.[].insteadOf feature to clone
certain (very big) submodules from a local mirror instead of from remote.
The configuration is something like

[url "/home/sampleuser/mirrors/bigrepo.git"]
    insteadOf = git@remotehost:bigrepo.git

Cloning this repo with
    git clone git@remotehost:bigrepo.git
works fine, it is cloning from my local repo instead of from the remote one.

But: I was expecting the 'git clone' call to take into account that it
is cloning a local repository and create hard links to the packs of my
local mirror repository, but instead it copies the whole repo just as it
was a remote repository. This should get fixed, this 'git clone' call
should detect that it is cloning a local repository and create hard
links to the *.pack files.

When cloning the local mirror directly with
    git clone /home/sampleuser/mirrors/bigrepo.git
'git clone' automatically creates hard links to the local mirrors *.pack
files.


Cheers,

Hannes

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