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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: worktrees vs. alternates
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 11:29:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po1waqyc.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A33442B1-B37D-42E1-9C58-8AB583A43BC9@gmail.com>


On Wed, May 16 2018, Lars Schneider wrote:

> I am looking into different options to cache Git repositories on build
> machines. The two most promising ways seem to be git-worktree [1] and
> git-alternates [2].
>
> I wonder if you see an advantage of one over the other?
>
> My impression is that git-worktree supersedes git-alternates. Would
> that be a fair statement? If yes, would it makes sense to deprecate
> alternates for simplification?
>
> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
> [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout#gitrepository-layout-objectsinfoalternates

It's not correct that worktrees supersede alternates, or the other way
around, they're orthagonal features.

git-worktree allows you to create a new working directory connected to
the same local object store.

Alternates allow you to declare in any given local object store, that
your set of objects isn't complete, and you can find the rest at some
other location, those object stores may or may not have more than one
worktree connected to them.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-16  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-16  8:13 worktrees vs. alternates Lars Schneider
2018-05-16  9:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-05-16  9:42   ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-05-16 11:07     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-16  9:51   ` Lars Schneider
2018-05-16 10:33     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-16 13:02       ` Derrick Stolee
2018-05-16 14:58         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 15:34           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-16 15:49             ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 17:54               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-16 17:14           ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 17:41             ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 18:02               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-16 18:12                 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 18:26                   ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 19:01                     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 19:03                       ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 19:11                         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 19:18                           ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 19:23                       ` Jeff King
2018-05-16 19:29                         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 19:37                           ` Jeff King
2018-05-16 19:40                             ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 20:06                               ` Jeff King
2018-05-16 20:43                                 ` Martin Fick
2018-05-16 20:02                             ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-05-16 20:17                               ` Jeff King
2018-05-17  0:43                               ` Sitaram Chamarty
2018-05-17  3:31                                 ` Jeff King
2018-05-19  5:45                                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-16 19:14           ` Jeff King
2018-05-16 21:18             ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 23:45               ` Jeff King

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