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Documentation: full-ness of a bundle is significant for cloning

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Not necessarily every bundle file can be cloned from.  Only the ones
that do not need prerequisites can.

When 1d52b02 (Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording
in git-bundle.txt, 2009-03-22) reworded this paragraph, it lost a
critical hint to tell readers why this particular bundle can be
cloned from.  Resurrect it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -112,10 +112,9 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master
machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
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Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. If you are creating
the repository on machine B, then you can clone from the bundle as if it
were a remote repository instead of creating an empty repository and then
pulling or fetching objects from the bundle:
Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. Because this
bundle does not require any existing object to be extracted, you can
create a new repository on machine B by cloning from it:
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machineB$ git clone -b master /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2