Naive questions re hard-linking repositories

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Wed Apr 15 16:09:56 BST 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:15:10AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:26:13PM +1000 I heard the voice of
> Ian Clatworthy, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > For 2.0, perhaps "branch" ought to always stack by default and
> > "clone" ought to not stack, rather than just be an alias for branch?
> 
> Actually, I kinda imagined stealing 'clone' for colocated branches.

git has clone, and git has colocated branches, but git clone doesn't
work on them---it clones the whole repository.  Using clone for
colocated branches would increase confusion, so I'd advise against it.

(Incidentally, just today I wished bzr had colocated branches.)

Marius Gedminas
-- 
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