On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are basically three levels of transport that can be used on a > local machine: > > 1. Hard-linking (very fast, no redundancy). > > 2. Byte-for-byte copy (medium speed, makes a separate copy of the > data, but does not check the integrity of the original). > > 3. Regular git transport, creating a pack (slowest, but should include > redundancy checks). > > Using --no-hardlinks turns off (1), but leaves (2) as an option. I > think the documentation in "git clone" could use some improvement in > that area. Not only git-clone. How git-fetch and git-push verify the new pack should also be documented. I don't think many people outside the contributor circle know what is done (and maybe how) when data is received from outside. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html