prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic
links.
+
+ This option does not work with repositories owned by other users for security
+ reasons, and `--no-local` must be specified for the clone to succeed.
+ +
*NOTE*: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
-source repository, similar to running `cp -r src dst` while modifying
-`src`.
+source repository, similar to running `cp -r <src> <dst>` while modifying
+_<src>_.
---no-hardlinks::
+`--no-hardlinks`::
Force the cloning process from a repository on a local
filesystem to copy the files under the `.git/objects`
directory instead of using hardlinks. This may be desirable