[PATCH] Short-circuit git-clone-pack while cloning locally (take 2).

When we are cloning a repository on a local filesystem, it is
faster to just create a hard linkfarm of .git/object hierarchy
and copy the .git/refs files.  By default, the script uses the
clone-pack method, but it can be told with the -l flag to do the
hard linkfarm (falling back on recursive file copy) to replicate
the .git/object hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/git-clone-script b/git-clone-script
index 28a9321..4f80ade 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-clone-script
+++ b/git-clone-script
@@ -1,4 +1,70 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005, Linus Torvalds
+# Copyright (c) 2005, Junio C Hamano
+# 
+# Clone a repository into a different directory that does not yet exist.
+
+usage() {
+       echo >&2 "* git clone [-l] <repo> <dir>"
+       exit 1
+}
+
+use_local=no
+while
+       case "$#,$1" in
+       0,*) break ;;
+        *,-l|*,--l|*,--lo|*,--loc|*,--loca|*,--local) use_local=yes ;;
+       *,-*) usage ;;
+       *) break ;;
+       esac
+do
+       shift
+done
+
 repo="$1"
 dir="$2"
-mkdir "$dir" && cd "$dir" && git-init-db && git-clone-pack "$repo"
+mkdir "$dir" &&
+D=$(
+       (cd "$dir" && git-init-db && pwd)
+) &&
+test -d "$D" || usage
+
+# We do local magic only when the user tells us to.
+case "$use_local" in
+yes)
+       ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
+               repo="$repo/.git"
+               ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
+                   echo >&2 "-l flag seen but $repo is not local."
+                   exit 1
+               }
+       }
+
+       # See if we can hardlink and drop "l" if not.
+       sample_file=$(cd "$repo" && \
+                     find objects -type f -print | sed -e 1q)
+
+       # objects directory should not be empty since we are cloning!
+       test -f "$repo/$sample_file" || exit
+
+       l=
+       if ln "$repo/$sample_file" "$D/.git/objects/sample" 2>/dev/null
+       then
+               l=l
+       fi &&
+       rm -f "$D/.git/objects/sample" &&
+       cp -r$l "$repo/objects" "$D/.git/" || exit 1
+
+       # Make a duplicate of refs and HEAD pointer
+       HEAD=
+       if test -f "$repo/HEAD"
+       then
+               HEAD=HEAD
+       fi
+       tar Ccf "$repo" - refs $HEAD | tar Cxf "$D/.git" - || exit 1
+       exit 0
+       ;;
+esac
+
+cd "$D" && git clone-pack "$repo"