From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:27:28 +0100 Message-ID: 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205490517 28883 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2008 10:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Jason Earl , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jonathan Lange" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 11:29:04 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 1Ja79n-0003L2-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:28:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja79E-0006vR-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja797-0006uH-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja794-0006qP-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja793-0006ps-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja791-0003gC-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DB135069; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:27:29 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Loni Anderson's hair should be LEGALIZED!! In-Reply-To: (Jonathan Lange's message of "Fri\, 14 Mar 2008 09\:13\:11 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 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:92509 Archived-At: "Jonathan Lange" writes: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Jonathan Lange" writes: >> >> >> > Actually, it's probably a good idea to do make a shared repository >> > called 'emacs-bzr' and use the original clone command inside that. = So, >> > >> > bzr init-repo emacs-bzr >> > cd emacs-bzr >> > bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/ >> > >> > That way, Bazaar will share revisions between branches of Emacs, >> > making it faster to clone other branches. >> >> Can you do that sharing also between different directories, that is t= he >> 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. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."