What is the implicit subject of this -ing participle clause?

A local repository is fast only if you have fast access to the data. A repository on NFS is often slower than the repository over SSH on the same server, allowing Git to run off local disks on each system.

Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, Pro Git (New York: Apress, 2014), chap. 4, https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2.

In the second sentence of the quotation above, what is the implicit subject of the –ing participle clause? Is it "A repository on NFS"?

Answer

I translated the sentence with google translate into Persian just in case and judging by the translation, yes, the implicit subject is "A repository on NFS"

If that wasn’t the case, I believe the second part of the sentence should have read as follows:

which allows …..

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Source : Link , Question Author : Bulhwi Cha , Answer Author : Mohsen from Iran

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