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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Git drawbacks?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:23 +0100
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> Perhaps, I have to explain why fix/test cycle is so long. I'm working on mobile
> platform development. It is not so modular, so I need to build the whole image,
> then flash the mobile and test it in a real network. This takes much time and
> need much disk space (about 2GB of source files. In fact, significant number of
> these files are not needed for the build, but it is too hard to force CM
> engineers to fix this :-) )

In that case I think using multiple working trees, but sharing the pack 
files is a good idea.

Paolo