No local cloning for insteadOf URLs

Hi there,

on Linux I'm using the config option url.[].insteadOf feature to clone certain (very big) submodules from a local mirror instead of from remote. The configuration is something like

[url "/home/sampleuser/mirrors/bigrepo.git"]
insteadOf = git@remotehost:bigrepo.git

Cloning this repo with
git clone git@remotehost:bigrepo.git
works fine, it is cloning from my local repo instead of from the remote one.

But: I was expecting the 'git clone' call to take into account that it is cloning a local repository and create hard links to the packs of my local mirror repository, but instead it copies the whole repo just as it was a remote repository. This should get fixed, this 'git clone' call should detect that it is cloning a local repository and create hard links to the *.pack files.

When cloning the local mirror directly with
git clone /home/sampleuser/mirrors/bigrepo.git
'git clone' automatically creates hard links to the local mirrors *.pack files.

Cheers,

Hannes