Re: Reducing buildfarm disk usage: remove temp installs when done

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> But I'm wondering if we should look at using the tricks git-new-workdir
> uses, setting up symlinks instead of a full clone. Then we'd have one
> clone with a bunch of different work dirs. That plus a but of explicitly
> done garbage collection and possibly a periodic re-clone might do the trick.

Yeah, I was wondering whether it'd be okay to depend on git-new-workdir.
That would fix the problem pretty nicely. But in the installations I've
seen, that's not in PATH but squirreled away in some hard-to-guess library
directory ...

regards, tom lane