Rich Fromm <richard_fromm@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Apologies if my questions are considered slightly off topic -- I'm not > positive if this is supposed to be a list for developers, and not users. The list is both for users and developers. > However, I think there may be room for some additional clarity in the docs. > The --local option in git-config(1) says "When the repository to clone from > is on a local machine, this flag bypasses the normal "git aware" transport > mechanism". But there's no mention of the consequences of this transport > bypass. Yeah, I would not mind a patch to update the documentation for "clone --local" and rsync transport to say something about byte-for-byte copying of broken repository. Thanks. -- 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