Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:22:26PM -0700, Ryan Anderson wrote: > > >> You can have multiple source trees, one per 'branch' (which is a bit of >> a bad term here), and have completely unrelated things in the branches. >> >> See, for an example, the main Git repo, which has the "man", "html", and >> "todo" branches, logically distinct and (somewhat) unrelated to the main >> branch tucked away in "master". >> > > Right, I know, but my complaint is that I can't then turn that into a > directory hierarchy of .../man, .../html, .../todo that are all checked > out at the same time (there are obviously ways of playing with it, say > by setting GIT_DIR and doing a checkout in those directories, but then I > can't use git in the normal way). > > The best I can come up with is having man, html, and todo repos pointing > to the one (now local) repo which contains everything. But then pushing > is a two-step process. > > Hrm, if I understand CVS at all, the old workflow was "cvsup a copy of the repository, update a working tree against that", which is, I think, actually even worse than the Git equivalent, since you can't reliably even commit to that local clone of the CVS repository. What am I missing? You can still push directly upstream, I suppose, and just do 2-stage pulls down. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere
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