Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local
When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Taylor Blau committed
Jan 11, 2021 at 14:25 UTC
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@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is ignored (and we
never use the local optimizations). Specifying `--no-local` will
override the default when `/path/to/repo` is given, using the regular
Git transport instead.
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+*NOTE*: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
+source repository, similar to running `cp -r src dst` while modifying
+`src`.
--no-hardlinks::
Force the cloning process from a repository on a local