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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:30:53 +0200
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David Kastrup, Mon, Oct 15, 2007 21:26:44 +0200:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Michael Gebetsroither, Mon, Oct 15, 2007 02:46:11 +0200:
> >> > - it is the only OS in the world with multi-root (/a/b/c and /a/b/c
> >> >   can be not the same, depending on what current "drive" is) and
> >> >   multi-cwd, which hasn't had formed itself into a problem yet, but
> >> >   surely will
> >> 
> >> Thats true for linux too.
> >> /a/b/c and /a/b/c can be 2 totally different files depending on the vfs
> >> namespace you are one.
> >
> > No it is not. A process will always see the same filesystem object
> > under the same path at the any given time (IOW, you can't have many
> > namespaces active at the same time).
> 
> dak@lola:/home/tmp/emacs$ mkdir -p /tmp/a/b
> dak@lola:/home/tmp/emacs$ cd /tmp/a/b
> dak@lola:/tmp/a/b$ sudo mount --bind /usr /tmp/a

Well don't do that in your repos (unless need that for something).

It is not like someone creates a distribution which does it
automagically all the time and you're forced to use that distribution.