Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Poole <mdpoole@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This all sounds a lot like git-clone's "alternate" code. >> ... >> My own work habits are very similar to Bill Lear's, but my projects' >> build times are small enough that it's less pain to rebuild half the >> project than to propagate changes recorded under $GIT_DIR between >> local branches. I have not found a git workflow that makes me >> entirely happy, but I suspect I just don't know the magic words. > > These days I use a few working trees that are connected to my > primary repository (which also has a working tree). The primary > repository is in /src/git, and other ones look like this: > > : gitster git.wk0; ls -l .git/ > total 120 > drwxrwsr-x 3 junio src 4096 Mar 5 16:22 ./ > drwxrwsr-x 15 junio src 16384 Mar 5 16:23 ../ > -rw-rw-r-- 1 junio src 41 Mar 5 16:22 HEAD > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 27 Mar 3 22:53 config -> /src/git/.git/config > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 26 Mar 3 22:53 hooks -> /src/git/.git/hooks/ > -rw-rw-r-- 1 junio src 82455 Mar 5 16:22 index > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 25 Mar 3 22:53 info -> /src/git/.git/info/ > drwxrwsr-x 3 junio src 4096 Mar 3 22:59 logs/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 28 Mar 3 22:53 objects -> /src/git/.git/objects/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 32 Mar 3 22:53 packed-refs -> /src/git/.git/packed-refs > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 25 Mar 3 22:53 refs -> /src/git/.git/refs/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 28 Mar 3 22:53 remotes -> /src/git/.git/remotes/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 junio src 29 Mar 3 22:53 rr-cache -> /src/git/.git/rr-cache/ By the way, doing something like this, but not by using lots of symlinks, but a kind of symref was idea behind Josef Weidendorfer .gitlink idea (search for '[RFC] Light-weight checkouts via ".gitlink"') -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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