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
next prev parent 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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