perusing "man git-clone" and, from the first part of the OPTIONS section, it's not immediately obvious what the difference is between using --no-local versus --no-hardlinks when cloning a local repo. both seem to suggest that the local git transport mechanism will be used, so what is the difference? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================