Hi Bill, On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > I often find myself in branch A, with everything checked in and > compiled, wanting to look at something on branch B. I did that, too, until git-show learnt about the nice ":" syntax. For example, if I want to know what is in branch B, I do $ git show B: which shows the root directory of the revision "B" (this is in line with <commit>:<pathspec> if you interpret "" as the root path). The subtrees are all identified by trailing slashes. Then you can say $ git show B:Documentation/Makefile If you want to know the differences to the file "doc/GNUMakefile" in your current working tree, do $ git diff B:Documentation/Makefile -- doc/GNUMakefile No need to switch branches. And if you _do_ need to switch branches, why not make a local clone, sharing the object database: $ git clone -l -s . test-directory This is _very_ fast, since it basically checks out the branches in test-directory/. Right now, you have to go to the test-directory, and switch the branches manually (I think), but talk has been that you may be able to tell git-clone which branch you really want. Hth, Dscho - 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