Re: Emacs Bazaar repository

[Andreas Schwab]

"Jonathan Lange" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Jonathan Lange" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>
>> > Actually, it's probably a good idea to do make a shared repository
>>  > called 'emacs-bzr' and use the original clone command inside that. So,
>>  >
>>  >   bzr init-repo emacs-bzr
>>  >   cd emacs-bzr
>>  >   bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/
>>  >
>>  > That way, Bazaar will share revisions between branches of Emacs,
>>  > making it faster to clone other branches.
>>
>>  Can you do that sharing also between different directories, that is the
>>  equivalent of git clone --reference?
>>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean, since I don't know much about git.
> I'll tell you what I know, instead.

You can tell git to borrow objects from another cloned repository
(similar to a symbolic link), and this other repository can be located
anywhere in the filesystem.  AFAICS, for bzr to be able to share commits
both clones need to be located under a common, prepared directory, which
would not fit into my current way to handle repositories.

Andreas.

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