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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-01-15 21:48:47 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-01-15 21:48:47 -0800
commit8782bfbf01a367e77079c4d835328ca4c5da1561 (patch)
tree6947381de1efd01b2463ecd7a66aadd7acc42b93
parentMerge branch 'bc/doc-status-short' (diff)
parentDocumentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local (diff)
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Merge branch 'tb/local-clone-race-doc'
Doc update. * tb/local-clone-race-doc: Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 876aedcd47..02d9c19cec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -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.
++
+*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