Re: Multiple checkout copies

[David Kastrup]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman writes:
>>   > A slightly different version of the above will save disk space by using
>>   > hard links to files in the original repository:
>>   >  git clone emacs emacs-24
>>   >  cd emacs-24
>>   >  git checkout emacs-24
>>
>> Thanks.  Maybe that is what I want to do.
>>
>> My idea is to do my editing in the 'emacs' directory, as well as
>> pulling updates there.  So these points seem like features rather than
>> bugs.
>
> The safest (but a bit more long-winded) way of dealing with simultaneous
> work on multiple branches is IMHO this setup (per example doing work on
> master and emacs-24):
>
> $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git --bare emacs.git
> $ git clone emacs.git/ emacs-master
> $ git clone emacs.git/ emacs-24
> $ cd emacs-24 ; git checkout emacs-24 ; cd ..
>
> This way there's only a single repository to push upstream from (which
> also makes it a bit easier to check what you intend to push).  Making
> this bare ensures you don't do any other work on this repo.

Minus the bare repository (I use my main repository) this is basically
what I do when I find I need to work on a different branch temporarily.
The difference is that I create my cloned directories on-demand and
remove them again once the work has been pushed upstream or integrated
wherever it is supposed to go.

While it isn't as formal a way to work as having one dedicated bare
repository, it is easy to do ad-hoc without prior setup.  Yes,
ping-ponging changes through the main repository is a bit of a nuisance.

-- 
David Kastrup