This commit updates the handling of git checkouts from the database to use
hardlinks if possible, speeding up this operation for large repositories
significantly.
As a refresher, Cargo caches git repositories in a few locations to speed up
local usage of git repositories. Cargo has a "database" folder which is a bare
checkout of any git repository Cargo has cached historically. This database
folder contains effectively a bunch of databases for remote repos that are
updated periodically.
When actually building a crate Cargo will clone this database into a different
location, the checkouts folder. Each rev we build (ever) is cached in the
checkouts folder. This means that once a checkout directory is created it's
frozen for all of time.
This latter step is what this commit is optimizing. When checking out the
database onto the local filesystem at a particular revision. Previously we were
instructing libgit2 to fall back to a "git aware" transport which was
exceedingly slow on some systems for filesystem-to-filesystem transfers. This
optimization (we just forgot to turn it on in libgit2) is a longstanding one and
should speed this up significantly!