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Re: VC mode and git


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: VC mode and git
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:46:04 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
As others have pointed out, using a separate repository each time does
not guarantee that these problems will not happen.

Of course it doesn't. But it does solve RMS's problem that he has a repository that's in a bad state, and wants to get back to a good state where he can commit and push changes, without losing any of the work in his current repository. It's a simple approach that doesn't require deep understanding of Git.

It definitely has a
disadvantage of cloning the repository each time, which involves
moving 400MB through the wire, and takes many minutes.

No, not at all. It takes 1.5 seconds on my 5-year-old desktop (just hard drives, no flash), and the only bytes that need to go across the wire are the ones containing commits that others made to Savannah since the last time you resynchronized; these are bytes that would need to go across the wire under any method.



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