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"local" can also be a network fileshare. It could also be in a directory that is treated differently than your other checkouts - whether that's something like d
by fwip 5mo ago
"local" can also be a network fileshare. It could also be in a directory that is treated differently than your other checkouts - whether that's something like deployment, sharing over the web, running CI, etc.
- ulrikrasmussen 5mo agoI doubt it is safe to concurrently modify a git repo over a fileshare though. I don't understand the other use cases you mention
- mystifyingpoi 5mo ago"network fileshare" is not local. By the same logic, I can mount S3 bucket over fuse and call it "local". Sure, it will work, but in the context it is just nonsense.
- fwip 5mo ago/shrug It's more local than github is. Whether it's a server running in your basement, or the filesystem served by the next rack over in your on-prem datacenter, it doesn't seem unreasonable to refer to it as 'local' in certain contexts, to contrast with remotes that are further away.