From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:29:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial
Message-ID: <86tzrikz5x.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vejim1n92.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>  * With -l, as long as the source repository is healthy, it is
>    very likely that the recipient would be, too.  Also it is
>    very cheap.  You do not get any back-up benefit.

Oh, but one does: an overzealous prune or rm -oopswrongoption in one
repo does not hurt the other.

> Which leads me to believe that being able to use file:/// is
> probably a good idea, if only for testability, but probably of
> little practical value, and we can default to -l for everyday
> use, and paranoids can use non -l as a way to make a back-up.

Sane enough, I guess.

-- 
David Kastrup