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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by MarkSweep on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:05PM (#23971901)
If it's a multi-gigabyte repo that you are cloning over a slow VPN, it speeds things up quite a bit.
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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by iad on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:50AM (#23972696)
The `--reference` and `--dissociate` flags to `git clone` can be used to avoid the majority of the network transfer while still creating an independent local repository.
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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by jayd16 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:33AM (#23973281)
Like I said, I'd usually just clone locally, as in clone from the repo you already have on disk.
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