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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Version mismatch when building trunk
From:       Ingmar Vanhassel <ingmar () exherbo ! org>
Date:       2009-10-17 16:28:07
Message-ID: 1255796759-sup-4064 () cannonball
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> > > > A clone is a 170 MB transfer. A fetch is usually just a few kilobytes
> > > > -- at most 5 MB when I push a new release.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I noticed.
> > > But 170MB every several months is acceptable, even if it takes quite a
> > > while.
> > 
> > Right. You'll do a 170 MB transfer when a 0 MB transfer is enough.
> > 
> > How is that acceptable?
> 
> I didn't claim that it is perfect, but it beats rebuilding Qt and kdesupport 
> twice because updating Qt did not actually update it.

git clone --reference /path/to/my-first-qt-clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git \
/âth/to/my-other-qt-checkout

You'll want to throw in --no-hardlinks if you don' tplan on keeping the
original clone around.

-- 
Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer


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