Re: need help adjusting workflow to git (or vice versa)

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

[Stephen Berman <address@hidden> (2014-11-13 20:44:22 UTC)]

> That's what Martin referred to, isn't it?  It takes considerably longer
> on my older and feebler hardware, also compared with `bzr update' and
> `bzr pull --overwrite' in a shared repository.  And the size is also not
> insignificant, if it means having a copy of the entire Emacs repository
> for each build (~540M).

You might have a look at the options --local and --shallow to git
clone. The idea would be to have one full clone that pulls from
savannah, then any number of local clones pulling from from that one.

After running  git clone --local emacs emacs2
I get this:

; du -sh emacs/.git emacs2/.git
199M    emacs/.git
392K    emacs2/.git

The clone operation was pretty fast, too. 7 seconds on an SSD.

– Harald