On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Ian Lynagh: > >On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:21:47PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty > >wrote: > >>From what you are saying, it seems that one "advantage" of git (in- > >>place branch switching) is not going to be useful to GHC in any case > > > >Yes. > > > >>(because we use nested repositories). > > > >That does make it harder, but the main problem is that switching > >between > >branches changes the timestamp of files that differ, meaning the build > >system thinks that recompilation needs to be done. > > > >Also, if you have 2 in-place branches of GHC then only one of them can > >be built at any one time, as they share a working directory. > > That doesn't sound like GHC-specific issues. So, if inplace branches > are useful for other projects -such as the Linux kernel- why shouldn't > it be useful for us?
I don't know. Git people, can you fill us in please? Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
