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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 <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Taylor Blau 2021-01-11 14:25:10 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -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.
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*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