Re: VC mode and git

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> As others have pointed out, using a separate repository each time does
> not guarantee that these problems will not happen.

Of course it doesn't.  But it does solve RMS's problem that he has a repository 
that's in a bad state, and wants to get back to a good state where he can commit 
and push changes, without losing any of the work in his current repository. 
It's a simple approach that doesn't require deep understanding of Git.

> It definitely has a
> disadvantage of cloning the repository each time, which involves
> moving 400MB through the wire, and takes many minutes.

No, not at all.  It takes 1.5 seconds on my 5-year-old desktop (just hard 
drives, no flash), and the only bytes that need to go across the wire are the 
ones containing commits that others made to Savannah since the last time you 
resynchronized; these are bytes that would need to go across the wire under any 
method.