From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0100 Message-ID: <85d4px618z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <87skyvmfi0.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205491047 30797 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2008 10:37:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jonathan Lange , Karl Fogel , Jason Earl , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 11:37:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ja7IQ-0006sK-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:37:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja7Hr-00046M-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja7H8-0003PB-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja7H5-0003Le-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja7H5-0003LN-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja7H4-0006Ah-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:36:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD03D104252; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7352BF3C9; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-012-006.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.12.6]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EC04D4F; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8AA5E1C4F906; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:27:28 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6228/Fri Mar 14 05:45:15 2008 on mail-in-03.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92516 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > "Jonathan Lange" writes: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> >>> Can you do that sharing also between different directories, that is >>> the equivalent of git clone --reference? >>> >> >> I'm not exactly sure what you mean, since I don't know much about >> git. I'll tell you what I know, instead. > > You can tell git to borrow objects from another cloned repository > (similar to a symbolic link), and this other repository can be located > anywhere in the filesystem. AFAICS, for bzr to be able to share > commits both clones need to be located under a common, prepared > directory, which would not fit into my current way to handle > repositories. "share commits" is somewhat misleading: clone --reference does not actually share any structure between the repositories: they can be completely unrelated. What it does is, loosely speaking, to use one repository as a compression dictionary for the other repository. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum