use local cloning if insteadOf makes a local URL

Move the is_local logic to the place where origin remote has been setup and
check if the remote url can be used to do local cloning.

This saves a lot of space (and time) in some of the mirroring scenarios that
involve insteadOf rewrites.

Signed-off-by: Michael Barabanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: michaelwrs

builtin/clone.c

@@ -799,18 +799,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		die(_("repository '%s' does not exist"), repo_name);
 	else
 		repo = repo_name;
-	is_local = option_local != 0 && path && !is_bundle;
-	if (is_local) {
-		if (option_depth)
-			warning(_("--depth is ignored in local clones; use file:// instead."));
-		if (!access(mkpath("%s/shallow", path), F_OK)) {
-			if (option_local > 0)
-				warning(_("source repository is shallow, ignoring --local"));
-			is_local = 0;
-		}
-	}
-	if (option_local > 0 && !is_local)
-		warning(_("--local is ignored"));
 
 	/* no need to be strict, transport_set_option() will validate it again */
 	if (option_depth && atoi(option_depth) < 1)
@@ -903,6 +891,19 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	remote = remote_get(option_origin);
 	transport = transport_get(remote, remote->url[0]);
+	path = get_repo_path(remote->url[0], &is_bundle);
+	is_local = option_local != 0 && path && !is_bundle;
+	if (is_local) {
+		if (option_depth)
+			warning(_("--depth is ignored in local clones; use file:// instead."));
+		if (!access(mkpath("%s/shallow", path), F_OK)) {
+			if (option_local > 0)
+				warning(_("source repository is shallow, ignoring --local"));
+			is_local = 0;
+		}
+	}
+	if (option_local > 0 && !is_local)
+		warning(_("--local is ignored"));
 	transport->cloning = 1;
 
 	if (!transport->get_refs_list || (!is_local && !transport->fetch))