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Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:26:07 +0200 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:18:53 +0900
>
> > > Simply doing "git clone source-repo target-repo" uses very little
> > > extra space (or time) at clone time because the objects are
> > > hard-linked across directories by default.
> >
> > That is true (even on Windows), but then one would need to pull twice,
> > once from upstream, the other time from the first clone to the second,
> > right? Doesn't sound a net win to me.
>
> Fetching takes negligible time locally, and if you're worried about
> the typing write a shell function/script or an Emacs command.
I'm worried about people forgetting the 2nd fetch, and then getting
themselves into trouble.
> I think there's a huge amount of premature optimization going on here
> (not from you: "make bootstrap" is an unacceptable time sink if you
> can avoid it, finding ways to avoid it is not "premature"). Both the
> space worries of people less experienced with git and the workflow
> proposals of the experienced users really should be postponed until
> the new git users actually run into those issues.
I agree wholeheartedly.
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, (continued)
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Steinar Bang, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Ken Brown, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/24
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/24
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el,
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- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/24
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/24
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/22
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/23
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/24
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/22
- Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el, David Engster, 2014/11/23
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