"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? The "local" optimization is designed to use hardlinks to share as many object and pack files as possible to avoid copies. You can optionally disable the use of hardlinks to always copy, without disabling the "local" optimization. If you say --no-local, --[no-]hardlinks has no relevance.
