From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Managing multiple branches in git |
Date: | 2009-06-02 20:13:16 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070906021313g54bcc303m29117566fda7acc@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 06/02/2009 09:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>> Mark Mielke wrote:
>>
>>> I just don't understand why you care. If the CVS directories didn't bug
>>> you before, why does the single .git directory bug you now? I'm
>>> genuinely interested as I don't get it. :-)
>>
>> It doesn't. What bugs me is that the database (the "pulled" tree if you
>> will) is stored in it. It has already been pointed out how to put it
>> elsewhere, so no need to explain that.
>>
>> What *really* bugs me is that it's so difficult to have one "pulled"
>> tree and create a bunch of checked out copies from that.
>
> I dont see were the difficulty resides?
>
> #Setup a base repository
> cd /../master
> git [--bare] clone git://git.postgresql.org/whatever .
>
>
> #Method 1
> cd /../child1
> git clone --reference /../master/ git://git.postgresql.org/whatever .
> cd /../child2
> git clone --reference /../master/ git://git.postgresql.org/whatever .
>
> This way you can fetch from the git url without problem, but when a object
> is available locally it is not downloaded again.
Yeah but now you have to push and pull commits between your numerous
local working copies. Boo, hiss.
> #Method2
> cd /../child3
> git clone --shared /../postgresql/ child3
> ...
> This way you only fetch from your "pulled" tree and never possibly from the
> upstream one.
This is so unsafe it's not even worth talking about. See git-clone(1).
...Robert
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