From: Hilco Wijbenga Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:04:13 GMT Subject: Re: Git, Builds, and Filesystem Type Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <14de0389-6497-4e74-baa5-129b0c1560a3@email.android.com> On 9 February 2012 18:08, Martin Fick wrote: >>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. >>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.