On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:02:41PM +0000, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Is there any reason you hide the tag object?
> 
> What's a tag object?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitglossary.html#def_tag_object

> > Using git clone --mirror would be much efficient, I think.
> 
> 	warthog>man git-clone | grep mirror
> 	warthog1>

It's new in v1.6.0. You can just use git --bare init; git remote
add --mirror in older versions.