Repository outside the working directory?

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 11:19 -0700, v wrote:
> I'm considering using a ramdisk for development (working directory), but the
> repository will have to stay on HDD. Is the share extension the best way of
> doing this?

Probably. On Unix, symlinks will also work.

On Linux, btw, you should use a "ramfs" (pure-cache filesystem with no
backing block device), which is a completely different beast than a
"ramdisk" (in-memory block device with a conventional filesystem and
caching). But if you're on Linux, you probably won't see much benefit
once your dataset is in cache.

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