Re: Patch queue management systems

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:38:15 +0100 Steinar Bang <address@hidden> wrote: 

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
SB> If that repository resides on the same server and is created with
SB> hardlinks to the real repo, it should also be cheap disk-usage-wise,
SB> at least initially....)

>> Eh.

SB>  cd /wherever/the/emacs/repo/lives
SB>  git clone --mirror ./emacs.git ./emacs-feature-branches.git

SB> If the git used is reasonably new, then all of the known-by-hash objects
SB> in the new repository will be hardlinks to the original repo (which is
SB> safe since these will never change).

I know all that (and the ways to override it) :)

I was saying that saving disk space is really low on the list of
benefits. Allowing non-fast-forward pushes for certain branches is much
more valuable to the Emacs project.

Stefan, Glenn: any chance we can get a contributor repo set up that's
just like the Emacs repo but allows non-fast-forward pushes, and whose
commits go to emacs-diffs?  Even better would be if user X could only
push to branches "X/.*"

Thanks
Ted