> Sadly, mercurial doesn't support having multiple working directories > from a single clone, which would be useful to avoid wasting so much disk > space on .hg.
I'm not usually one to defend hg, but hg does have the |relink| command, which gets you most of the way there in terms of saving disk space. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:28:38AM -0700, Justin Lebar wrote: >> >> Wouldn't switching branches in the same repo clone touch many files >> >> and trigger unfortunately clobber builds? Even with ccache and >> >> separate per-branch objdirs, this seems like a problem. >> > >> > Yes. >> >> Nothing about this proposal forces you to have only one clone and >> switch back and forth between aurora and central, thus clobbering your >> objdir. You could still have two trees, one used for aurora, and one >> used for central, if you prefer that. > > Sadly, mercurial doesn't support having multiple working directories > from a single clone, which would be useful to avoid wasting so much disk > space on .hg. But git does ;) (albeit, with a script in contrib/) > I guess someone could patch mercurial to support such setups, which, > independently of what we do on the servers, could be useful on the > clients (pull different branches in the same local clone, use different > working directories for each). > > Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
