Re: Emacs Bazaar repository

[Jonathan Lange]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Jonathan Lange" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Actually, it's probably a good idea to do make a shared repository
>  > called 'emacs-bzr' and use the original clone command inside that. So,
>  >
>  >   bzr init-repo emacs-bzr
>  >   cd emacs-bzr
>  >   bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/
>  >
>  > That way, Bazaar will share revisions between branches of Emacs,
>  > making it faster to clone other branches.
>
>  Can you do that sharing also between different directories, that is the
>  equivalent of git clone --reference?
>

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, since I don't know much about git.
I'll tell you what I know, instead.

In that example, any branches beneath the 'emacs-bzr' will share the
repository in 'emacs-bzr'. In Bazaar, branches almost always have
their own directory.

jml