Re: VCS comparison table

On 10/17/06, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Aaron Bentley wrote:

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Jakub Narebski wrote:

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About "checkouts", i.e. working directories with repository elsewhere:
you can use GIT_DIR environmental variable or "git --git-dir" option,
or symlinks, and if Nguyen Thai Ngoc D proposal to have .gitdir/.git
"symref"-like file to point to repository passes, we can use that.

It sounds like the .gitdir/.git proposal would give Git "checkouts", by
our meaning of the term.

Actually it is better to work with clone of repository, perhaps either
symlinking object database, or by alternates mechanism (with alternates
repositories would share old history, but gather new independetly
I think).

I agree. Each Git repository is designed to work with one working
directory. Using .gitdir/.git proposal, you are likely to checkout two
working directories from one repo.
-- 
Duy