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

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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