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: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54CE9E10.5000709@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422925856 22691 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2015 01:10:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 01:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias Mårtenson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 03 02:10:55 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 1YIS10-0006SR-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:10:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIS0z-00036r-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIS0m-00036j-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIS0l-0008PI-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIS0l-0008Oj-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIS0k-0000PF-Oq; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:10:38 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elias Mårtenson on Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:19:59 +0800) 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:182301 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. ]]] 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. -- 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.