From: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: RFC: checkout/temporary branch switch restoring modification times
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:20:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA9E2C4.2040500@cockos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101004051148.GG24884@burratino>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Justin Frankel wrote:
>
>> git cop master
>> ; build
>> git cop some-branch-that-affects-lots-of-files
>> ; edit some things, commit
>> git cop master
>> ; build (fast, nothing changed)
>
> Interesting. I guess the intended use is that you only ever build
> on the master branch?
>
The idea is that you're often building on a particular branch, but want
to switch to another branch temporarily to either do a quick edit or to
browse some code.
> Have you ever tried the contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir script?
> I find it fits the use case well for me:
>
> git clone $repo
> cd repo
> make
> # oh, shoot! I need to try something out real quick.
> cd ..
> git new-workdir repo repo2 origin/master
> cd repo2
> git am patch-to-test
> make
> # okay, back to what I was doing...
> cd ../repo
>
> Maybe it could be helpful for you, too?
>
> Limitations:
>
> - requires a file system with support for symbolic links
> (I think Pierre Habouzit and Junio discussed changing
> that);
>
> - workdirs share refs. If you update master in one
> workdir and another workdir also has master checked
> out, the new changes will appear as staged changes.
>
> - workdirs do not share HEAD. "git gc" from one
> workdir can completely trash another if it has a
> detached HEAD pointing to a commit that is not part
> of any local or remote branch.
Ahh, that would be great. Unfortunately my filesystem often doesn't
support symlinks...
-Justin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 4:42 RFC: checkout/temporary branch switch restoring modification times Justin Frankel
2010-10-04 5:00 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-04 5:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 14:20 ` Justin Frankel [this message]
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