From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple checkout copies Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423004753 402 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2015 23:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 23:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Steinar Bang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 04 00:05:53 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 1YImXY-0002Bv-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:05:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImXX-0006h5-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImWz-0006g7-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImWy-0003n3-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImWy-0003mw-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImWw-0004ZG-Rq; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:05:14 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Steinar Bang on Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:50:33 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:182351 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > A slightly different version of the above will save disk space by using > hard links to files in the original repository: > git clone emacs emacs-24 > cd emacs-24 > git checkout emacs-24 Thanks. Maybe that is what I want to do. > Sigh. The second method (creating a clone of the repo) will make this > clone have the original repository as its upstream, not the remote one. > So the second approach will _only_ let you share stuff by going through > the first repository. My idea is to do my editing in the 'emacs' directory, as well as pulling updates there. So these points seem like features rather than bugs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.