From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:39:09 +0700 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45340713.6000707@utoronto.ca> <200610170119.09066.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Aaron Bentley" , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 17 01:39:15 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 1GZc38-000303-Ei for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:39:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422935AbWJPXjL (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:39:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750822AbWJPXjL (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:39:11 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]:3398 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814AbWJPXjK (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:39:10 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so2049344wxd for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fLjYaBpb5TU5l1nvB90fIJT9GABmi76tm4ksudd0IDczNbbNJgr7irW63udJqmNhhYVHg82neYdUsXtjBljsRXGq200rXKzitNS/2uJSD5AzFHSoQfBDkWefXczuHayU7YefgYtETFMmv9buOyxIiv1GKBom8DikiBGrsxKDlDI= Received: by 10.70.11.5 with SMTP id 5mr12473435wxk; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.46.13 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:39:09 -0700 (PDT) To: "Jakub Narebski" In-Reply-To: <200610170119.09066.jnareb@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/17/06, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Aaron Bentley wrote: > > Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> About "checkouts", i.e. working directories with repository elsewhere: > >> you can use GIT_DIR environmental variable or "git --git-dir" option, > >> or symlinks, and if Nguyen Thai Ngoc D proposal to have .gitdir/.git > >> "symref"-like file to point to repository passes, we can use that. > > > > It sounds like the .gitdir/.git proposal would give Git "checkouts", by > > our meaning of the term. > > Actually it is better to work with clone of repository, perhaps either > symlinking object database, or by alternates mechanism (with alternates > repositories would share old history, but gather new independetly > I think). I agree. Each Git repository is designed to work with one working directory. Using .gitdir/.git proposal, you are likely to checkout two working directories from one repo. -- Duy