Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM, David Cournapeau >>> <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: >>>> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>>>> It is maybe easier to learn how to work with different clones, but >>>>> once you start working with lots of patches and you need to reclone >>>>> all the time, then it's the wrong approach to work, as it takes lots >>>>> of time to copy the whole repository on the disk. >> >> This is simply wrong. Mercurial uses hard links for cloning a repo that > > On my laptop, recloning the whole repository (with hardlinks) takes > considerably longer than creating a new branch in the same directory, > that's a pure fact.
You can clone a repo using: cp -al old new That should be very fast. As long as you then use an editor that behaves correctly with hard links. If you use emacs you can configure this behavior. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
