Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> 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"')

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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