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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-08-19 00:09:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-08-19 00:09:13 +0000 |
| commit | b9376927508a2401c20bdb5c5c0608797f822524 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f7bc2c2e45729d7b4614b08d37a7773ddec3473 /git-clone.txt | |
| parent | ac34f56d4cf6a737f7d8cb56a9b57448f8d6e190 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-b9376927508a2401c20bdb5c5c0608797f822524.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-clone.txt b/git-clone.txt index b14de6c40..2c63a0fba 100644 --- a/git-clone.txt +++ b/git-clone.txt @@ -72,8 +72,16 @@ These objects may be removed by normal git operations (such as 'git-commit') which automatically call `git gc --auto`. (See linkgit:git-gc[1].) If these objects are removed and were referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository will become corrupt. - - ++ +Note that running `git repack` without the `-l` option in a repository +cloned with `-s` will copy objects from the source repository into a pack +in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of `clone -s`. +It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `-l` option by +default. ++ +If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on +its source repository, you can simply run `git repack -a` to copy all +objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --reference <repository>:: If the reference repository is on the local machine |