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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple checkout copies
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:15:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvan2l29.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4ofb1gt.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:53:38 +0100")

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>> Apparently you confuse --shared with _not_ using --shared.
>
> Indeed, I was reading "--local" instead of "--shared", sorry. :-P
>
> In any case, as long as the repo cloned via "--shared" is a bare
> repository that was cloned from upstream Emacs and you do not clone the
> second generation again in this manner, "--shared" is still safe.

No, it isn't.  You can have both local branches and remote branches
removed from the cloned bare repo while your --shared clone still uses
objects that are no longer retained in the first clone.

> It can still be a net win for throw-away clones needed during a build.

Basically the only sensible use is for temporary clones used (and
deleted again) within a script.

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01 20:34 Multiple checkout copies Richard Stallman
2015-02-01 21:43 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-02 13:35   ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-02 15:19     ` Elias Mårtenson
2015-02-03  1:10       ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-03  1:32         ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-03  8:40         ` David Kastrup
2015-02-02 17:42     ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-02 18:12       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-03  1:10       ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-03  7:14         ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-03 10:02         ` Achim Gratz
2015-02-03 10:22           ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 12:53             ` Achim Gratz
2015-02-03 13:15               ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-02-03 13:37                 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-03 13:57                   ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 18:30                     ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-03 18:53                       ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 19:17                         ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-03 19:41                           ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 20:25                             ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-04 23:02                             ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-03 17:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-03 16:50 ` Steinar Bang
2015-02-03 17:05   ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 22:55     ` Steinar Bang
2015-02-03 23:05   ` Richard Stallman
2015-02-04  8:48     ` Achim Gratz
2015-02-04  8:55       ` David Kastrup
2015-02-04 12:02       ` Ivan Shmakov

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