From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:05:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <52C5C35B.7010004@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388696763 19470 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 21:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 22:06:09 2014 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 1VypSy-00041J-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:06:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypSx-0000Yt-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:06:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypSn-0000Qm-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypSf-0000gg-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:05:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:5197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypSX-0000fW-1D; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:05:41 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsr+l6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtjQaEBAOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsr+l6/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtjQaEBAOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="43796016" Original-Received: from 108-175-233-122.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.175.233.122]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 02 Jan 2014 16:05:40 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1369F60083; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:05:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <52C5C35B.7010004@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:51:55 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:167081 Archived-At: >> I've learned to appreciate Bzr and have trouble reproducing my >> workflow with Git (especially the shared repository which Git seems only >> able to somewhat approximate in a half-assed way, not mentioning the >> lightweight checkouts which Git seems unable to handle). > What do you mean? git clone will use hardlinks when cloning a local > repository, so it's very fast for me. Yes, it's shared when you "git clone" but 3 years down the line, there's not much sharing left. I.e. the sharing is only approximated. > Isn't speed (and some space efficiency) the reason to use bzr > shared repositories? Yes, speed and space (inefficient space usage is a problem both for speed and for backup purposes). Stefan