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Re: [OT] Question about Git branches

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On 2014-09-16 17:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, but this is due to different design decisions of git and Mercurial. git
>> prioritized the multiple branches in a single clone use case; Mercurial
>> prioritized re-cloning. It's natural to do this kind of branching in git,
>> and more natural to re-clone in Mercurial.
>
> Ah, I wasn't aware of that philosophical difference. Does hg use
> hardlinks or something to minimize disk usage when you clone, or does
> it actually copy everything? (Or worse, does it make the new directory
> actually depend on the old one?)

I haven't kept up with the internals recently, but at least at one point, 
hardlinks were the order of the day, yes.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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[OT] Question about Git branches "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-09-16 08:22 +0200
  Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-16 11:21 +0300
    Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 18:29 +1000
      Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-16 22:14 +1000
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 22:48 +1000
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 22:50 +1000
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 17:08 +0100
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-17 02:25 +1000
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 20:11 +0100
        Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-09-17 11:47 +1000
    Re: [OT] Question about Git branches "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-09-16 10:59 +0200
      Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> - 2014-09-17 14:16 +0400
    Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2014-09-16 09:19 -0400
      Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-17 02:26 +0300
  Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> - 2014-09-17 16:04 +0400
    Re: [OT] Question about Git branches "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-09-17 17:52 +0200
    Re: [OT] Question about Git branches Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 02:00 +1000

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