From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:24:03 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45340713.6000707@utoronto.ca> <200610170155.10536.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 17 02:24:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZckN-0001dd-Ly for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:23:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422978AbWJQAXr convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422977AbWJQAXp (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:23:45 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:19380 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422978AbWJQAXo (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:23:44 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GZck9-0001bn-FX for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:23:41 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:23:41 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:23:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > So there is seldom any real need or reason to actually have multip= le=20 >> > checkouts. But it certainly _works_. >>=20 >> But without .git being either symlink, or .git/.gitdir "symref"-link= , >> you have to remember what to ser GIT_DIR to, or parameter for --git-= dir >> option. >=20 > I'd strongly suggest that people who do this should actually do >=20 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0git clone -l >=20 > instead of actually playing games with symlinking .git/ itself or usi= ng=20 > GIT_DIR. It means that the two checkouts get separate branch namespac= es,=20 > but that's really what you'd want most of the time.=20 Or symlinking .git/objects (and perhaps .git/remotes and .git/branches)= =2E BTW. wouldn't it be rather git clone -l -s? What would happenm on repac= k, or on repack -a -d? But it is true that there is no need to checkout different branches to different working areas. --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git