Jeff King wrote > Fundamentally the problem is > that the --local transport is not safe from propagating corruption, and > should not be used if that's a requirement. I've read Jeff Mitchell's blog post, his update, relevant parts of the git-clone(1) man page, and a decent chunk of this thread, and I'm still not clear on one thing. Is the danger of `git clone --mirror` propagating corruption only true when using the --local option ? Specifically, in my case, I'm using `git clone --mirror`, but I'm *not* using --local, nor am I using --no-hardlinks. The host executing the clone command is different than the the host on which the remote repository lives, and I am using ssh as a transport protocol. If there is corruption, can I or can I not expect the clone operation to fail and return a non-zero exit value? If I can not expect this, is the workaround to run `git fsck` on the resulting clone? -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/propagating-repo-corruption-across-clone-tp7580504p7580771.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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