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
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