Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> - without either, copy alternates from origin, but _don't_ use
> alternates while cloning
Are you talking about a local clone optimization that does hardlink from
the source repository?
I am fairly certain that copying alternates from the source repository was
not an intended behaviour but was a consequence of lazy coding of how we
copy (or link) everything from it. The original was literally the simple
matter of:
find objects ! -type d -print | cpio $cpio_quiet_flag -pumd$l "$GIT_DIR/"
whose intention was to copy objects/?? and objects/pack/. and it wasn't
even part of the design consideration to worry about what would happen to
the alternates the source repository might have in objects/info/.
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