From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Git vs Monotone Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:15:40 +0200 Message-ID: <200808110015.41258.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <8778C923356C6541B263428246AE9C2A4FE2966B09@NA-MAIL-2-2.rws.ad.ea.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: "Blum, Robert" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 11 00:17:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSJEM-0006PS-IZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:17:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753074AbYHJWQk (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:16:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753162AbYHJWQk (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:16:40 -0400 Received: from av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.181]:56742 "EHLO av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753018AbYHJWQk (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:16:40 -0400 Received: by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 294AA37F6C; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:16:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E2137E8F; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:16:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.244] (h250n1fls32o811.telia.com [213.67.100.250]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE2137E46; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:16:37 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <8778C923356C6541B263428246AE9C2A4FE2966B09@NA-MAIL-2-2.rws.ad.ea.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: torsdagen den 31 juli 2008 22.42.08 skrev Blum, Robert: > > >The fact is, even without "-s", a local clone will do hardlinks for the > >database. And since the original pack-file is marked as a 'keep' file, > >that original pack-file won't even be broken apart. > > Then again, Pidgin is, among other things, a Windows project. I.e. hardlinks are not exactly trivial. There's a good chance nobody jumped through the hoops of junction points for git on win32... (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong) Windows does hardlinks for files since NT 3.51 on NTFS. Cygwin supports it too. Symbolic links are another story. -- robin