From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple checkout copies
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:40:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq3z2xsb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YIS0k-0000PF-Oq@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:38 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
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>
> I wrote
>
> > Doesn't 'git clone' download a copy of the whole repository?
> > > I thought that is what it did.
>
> and you answered
>
> > When you do a "git checkout" of an existing git repository it will
> > hard-link the files in .git/objects so that they are shared between the
> > repositories.
>
> How does one get from the one t the other? I am lost.
I suppose by fixing a finger fluke. The second statement can be turned
from nonsensical to accurate by replacing "git checkout" with "git
clone". Of course, you still need to make this "of an existing git
repository on the same file system" since otherwise you won't be getting
hard links.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 8:40 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 [this message]
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
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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