<p>When writing remote-helpers for decentralized version control
systems, it is advised to keep a local copy of the repository to
interact with, and to let the private namespace refs point to this
local repository, while the refs/remotes namespace is used to track
the remote repository.</p>
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</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><em>bidi-import</em></dt>
<dd>
<p>This modifies the <em>import</em> capability.
The fast-import commands <em>cat-blob</em> and <em>ls</em> can be used by remote-helpers
to retrieve inform