git 2.5 gained native support for worktrees, so let's use them. Since this is fairly new I don't think we should switch the general dim setup over to using it (for e.g. the maintainer-tools and other auxiliary branches) since 2.5 was only released July 2015. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> --- dim | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dim b/dim index e30fc84a8567..854b5a61b399 100755 --- a/dim +++ b/dim @@ -556,7 +556,14 @@ function create_workdir echo Creating separate workdir for $branch - $DRY git-new-workdir ${DIM_DRM_INTEL} $branch $branch + if git help worktree &> /dev/null; then + # native worktree support was added in git 2.5 + cd $DIM_DRM_INTEL + $DRY git worktree add $DIM_PREFIX/$branch $branch + cd $DIM_PREFIX + else + $DRY git-new-workdir $DIM_DRM_INTEL $branch $branch + fi done } -- 2.6.4 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx