On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Tim Abraldes wrote: > > > 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 85% sure that Mercurial, on filesystems that support it, creates > > hardlinks instead of copies if you hg clone mozilla-central > > mozilla-central-2. > > jlebar did a post on how to minimize wasted space in your Mercurial clones: > http://www.jlebar.com/2011/5/20/Faster_and_smaller_clones_of_branches.html
That doesn't really get you in a setup with one repo clone and two working trees. It gets you in a setup with two repo clones, which happen to share some data, and two working trees. Committing in one of the working trees doesn't make the commit available in the other. Or pulling, for that matter. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
