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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-04-20 15:20:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-04-20 15:20:22 -0700 |
| commit | fdb7c3f555ff7d84db5a1b9f6b77de29d1d25f69 (patch) | |
| tree | 962ef48c54c2d8e276081fed6421ee63ba0292c1 /git-clone.html | |
| parent | 4304bf6b4ee4210f0aee438088114a7761d2d667 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-fdb7c3f555ff7d84db5a1b9f6b77de29d1d25f69.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.40.0-363-g9c699
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diff --git a/git-clone.html b/git-clone.html index 8f6f3210e..c87a956e5 100644 --- a/git-clone.html +++ b/git-clone.html @@ -806,6 +806,10 @@ repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is ignored (and we never use the local optimizations). Specifying <code>--no-local</code> will
override the default when <code>/path/to/repo</code> is given, using the regular
Git transport instead.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>If the repository’s <code>$GIT_DIR/objects</code> has symbolic links or is a
+symbolic link, the clone will fail. This is a security measure to
+prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic
+links.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p><strong>NOTE</strong>: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
source repository, similar to running <code>cp -r src dst</code> while modifying
<code>src</code>.</p></div>
@@ -1509,7 +1513,7 @@ clone.filterSubmodules <div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
Last updated
- 2022-09-14 13:23:11 PDT
+ 2023-04-20 15:18:02 PDT
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