as far as I know, if you `git clone` locally a git-annex enabled repository, it will not have all the files available. you would need to use `git annex get` and all files would be copied over, wasting a significant amount of space.

`git-clone` has this `--local` flags which hardlinks objects in `.git/objects`, but also, maybe more interestingly, has a `--shared` option to simply tell git to look in another repo for objects. it seems to me git-annex could leverage those functionalities to avoid file duplication when using local repositories.

this would be especially useful for [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/forum/ikiwiki_and_big_files).

This is a [[wishlist]], but I would also welcome implementation pointers to do this myself, thanks! --[[anarcat]]

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