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 -- 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