From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:43 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <864mot72qg.fsf@dod.no> References: <5511998E.8080309@cs.ucla.edu> <5512F8C7.7010509@math.ntnu.no> <5513F889.4000404@math.ntnu.no> <55212DE9.8070806@math.ntnu.no> <55217D4D.4080207@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4m6l8vw.fsf@gnu.org> <55228FBC.1080306@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428330350 5763 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2015 14:25:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 14:25:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 16:25:42 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 1Yf7yA-0001KN-2x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf7y9-0008TN-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf7xy-0008SM-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf7xv-0004kO-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf7xv-0004kG-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf7xt-00018W-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:25 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:25 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BLp5EY1dT3MhLVZNL5Yg0DLwIlo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:185036 Archived-At: >>>>> Harald Hanche-Olsen : > That could be helped by using shallow clones, though. You only ever > need a full clone if you wish to examine old history, and you could > keep just one full clone for that purpose, while having many shallow > clones for hacking. Local full clones start out as hardlinks to the original repository. They will diverge over time, but initially they are quite cheap.