From a4a1ca22ef913adf3de9e72e525a2cd436742009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Taylor Blau Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:25:10 -0500 Subject: Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-clone.txt') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3