On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:12 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: ... > > * --shared optimization > > > > This is a very easy addition to "git remote add". You make sure that > > the added remote repository is on a local machine, and set up > > alternates to point at its object store. > > Concur. > > Since I want to lose that dependency on cpio on Windows (which we fake by > using tar), I'll implement this in C anyway. It's not used for --shared (which is just writing an alternates file), it's used for -l, hardlinking locally cloned repos. The code to replace cpio is already in the patch I sent, look for clone_local(). cheers, Kristian - 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