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Use shared clone for checkouts, dissociate on bender clone - #308
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I like it! Git is pretty smart in saving storage meaning local clones imply --local which will hardlink objects. This means cloning with --shared will mainly be useful if database and checkout are on different file systems.
The repack also makes sense to me. I was suprised that we do an actual copy of the repository and not another git clone, but I guess that's because the checkout can be dirty.
Clone git checkouts with `--shared` so they borrow objects from the bare git database via alternates instead of copying the full object store, making checkouts faster and smaller on disk. Since the resulting checkout is no longer self-contained, `bender clone` now repacks the copied working directory (`git repack -a -d`) and removes the alternates link so the cloned-out repository is standalone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Clone git checkouts with
--sharedso they borrow objects from the bare git database via alternates instead of copying the full object store, making checkouts faster and smaller on disk.Since the resulting checkout is no longer self-contained,
bender clonenow repacks the copied working directory (git repack -a -d) and removes the alternates link so the cloned-out repository is standalone.