Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:18:53 +0900
> 
>  > > Simply doing "git clone source-repo target-repo" uses very little
>  > > extra space (or time) at clone time because the objects are
>  > > hard-linked across directories by default.
>  > 
>  > That is true (even on Windows), but then one would need to pull twice,
>  > once from upstream, the other time from the first clone to the second,
>  > right?  Doesn't sound a net win to me.
> 
> Fetching takes negligible time locally, and if you're worried about
> the typing write a shell function/script or an Emacs command.

I'm worried about people forgetting the 2nd fetch, and then getting
themselves into trouble.

> I think there's a huge amount of premature optimization going on here
> (not from you: "make bootstrap" is an unacceptable time sink if you
> can avoid it, finding ways to avoid it is not "premature").  Both the
> space worries of people less experienced with git and the workflow
> proposals of the experienced users really should be postponed until
> the new git users actually run into those issues.

I agree wholeheartedly.