Re: Self-inflicted "abort" in a newbie attempt at read-only exploration of a cloned repository?

[Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>]

On 05/04/18 11:34 PM, Bryan Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com> wrote:
>>
>> So passing --work-tree tells Git where to store your _files_, but it's
>> still using the same .git directory.
>>
>> If your goal is to have worktrees for various versions, that implies
>> the git worktree [1] command might be more along the lines of what
>> you're looking for. An invocation based on above might look like this:
>> $ git -C linux-stable/ worktree add $PWD/tmp/ checkout linux-4.15.y
>
> Apologies, I didn't mean to have the "checkout" in that.
> $ git -C linux-stable/ worktree add $PWD/tmp/ linux-4.15.y
>
>>
>> That should leave linux-4.16.y checked out in linux-stable, while
>> creating a full work tree in $PWD/tmp that has 4.15.y checked out.
>>
>> Note that worktree is a newer git command. 2.17 has it, but old
>> versions like 2.1 won't.
>>
>> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
>>
>> Hope this helps!

For sure, it helps! Thanks.

- Thierry