Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:01:07PM +0100 I heard the voice of > Jakub Narebski, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Do you really often compile and run other branch while developing on >> other? > > Yes. And I do the same with older revisions along a given branch too, > where is where [lightweight] checkouts come in handy. Well, if you don't _work_ on other branch, you can alwaych checkout the other branch or any given revision from a separate directory using git --git-dir=<path to repo> tar-tree <revision> | tar xf - for example. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html