From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2009-01-06T00:12:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21147] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:48:09PM +0900, Michael Klishin wrote:
> Darcs has idea of "every branch is a separate directory" (or used to
> have it). I can't say it is a problem but you will end up having 3-5
> copies of the pretty much the same code, and if you repository is 600
> megs, not all movies you try to  download from iTunes may fit into
> your HD.

The bigger problem with keeping separate copies of each branch is that
it forces the user to do a full recompile when a new branch is made (*).
This discourages short-lived development branches.

Paul


(*) at least, this is true when using make -- a build system that uses
md5sums makes this less of an issue