On 2007-03-01 15:36:25 -0600, 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 hop to branch
> B, look, and come back to branch A. Unfortunately, when I then do a
> make, files that differed between A and B will be recompiled, as
> well as any further dependencies.
Like others have already recommended, I usually just use separate
repositories to work around this problem. Of course, the proper fix is
to use a make-like tool that uses content hashes as well as timestamps
to decide if a file has been updated ...
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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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