Re: Git, Builds, and Filesystem Type

From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2012, 04:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CAE1pOi3Qk2qESza3QpwxbediYTOQxZ8WvpcfiE7FpkUZ9CwUjA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <14de0389-6497-4e74-baa5-129b0c1560a3@email.android.com>

On 9 February 2012 18:08, Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:

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>>That would be quite
>>tricky. I have a group of some 60 projects, each with their own
>>"target" directory which would have to be mounted on tmpfs. And the
>>"target" directory is created by Maven, not by me. Not to mention that
>>I shut down my computer at the end of the day. :-)
>
> Sounds like a laptop?  Hibernate?

No, a regular desktop that I shut down every night. It makes quite a bit of noise and I would rather not waste power.

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>>I think I would prefer a somewhat more persistent solution. I
>>certainly have enough space for a very big swap partition. So the
>>whole of ~/my-project would fit on tmpfs. I'm just not sure about
>>making it persistent at the end of the day.
>
> Link your .git dir to a persistent location.

I don't think that would help all that much. I would still lose anything I had not committed or stashed. And I would still have to rebuild every day.

Perhaps something together with unionfs? I'll think about it.