From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:53:47 +0200 Message-ID: <55229DFB.7010409@math.ntnu.no> References: <5511998E.8080309@cs.ucla.edu> <5512F8C7.7010509@math.ntnu.no> <5513F889.4000404@math.ntnu.no> <55212DE9.8070806@math.ntnu.no> <55217D4D.4080207@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4m6l8vw.fsf@gnu.org> <55228FBC.1080306@math.ntnu.no> <864mot72qg.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428332100 1603 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2015 14:55:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 14:55:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 16:54:58 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf8QR-0003Ko-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf8QQ-0000Yi-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf8PU-0007wI-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf8PP-0005rv-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hylle05.itea.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.225]:46609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf8PP-0005rX-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hylle05.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09868900EA5 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2015 16:53:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hylle05.itea.ntnu.no Original-Received: from [IPv6:2001:4662:4ffb::c35:78d:c6ff:48e4] (unknown [IPv6:2001:4662:4ffb:0:c35:78d:c6ff:48e4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanche) by hylle05.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60C59900E52; Mon, 6 Apr 2015 16:53:49 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.11 (Macintosh/20140602) In-Reply-To: <864mot72qg.fsf@dod.no> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 129.241.56.225 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185039 Archived-At: Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> Harald Hanche-Olsen: > >> That could be helped by using shallow clones, though. You only ever >> need a full clone if you wish to examine old history, and you could >> keep just one full clone for that purpose, while having many shallow >> clones for hacking. > > Local full clones start out as hardlinks to the original repository. > They will diverge over time, but initially they are quite cheap. But they require some more setting up, as you need to adjust the remote=20 tracking behaviour of the new clones. For those who know how, that is=20 indeed a better solution. =E2=80=93 Harald