-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:24:15 -0400 > Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> wrote: >>- - you can use a checkout to maintain a local mirror of a read-only >> branch (I do this with http://bazaar-vcs.com/bzr/bzr.dev). > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. A bzr checkout doesn't have any history > does it? By default, they do. You must use a flag to get a checkout with no history. > So it's not a mirror of a branch, but just a checkout of the > branch head? It's a mirror of a branch, and a copy of the branch's working tree. > If so, Git can export a tarball of a branch (actually a snapshot as at > any given commit) which can be mirrored out. Sure, and so can bzr. But using a checkout of the branch head means: - - No one has to do anything special to provide a working tree of a given revision - - I can still run any readonly operations I desire - - I can update to the latest version of bzr.dev with one command. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNTRc0F+nu1YWqI0RAsL2AKCCG0bP8m01WVllfPMzCdFZjmgEgACfeToz 57HERFJ6ZkkS3VrxLRnVPAs= =3CX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Oct 18 05:52:12 2006
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