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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:57 +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> The only time you get an unnecessary rebuild is if you do
> 
>  git checkout branch1
>  git checkout branch2
>  git checkout branch1
> 
> But we can hardly expect git to be responsible for that. 

Indeed. That's a user error. Git makes it cheap and easy to have
separate _trees_. Just use them -- branches are just another mental
hangover from CVS which we should try to cure ourselves of :)

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dwmw2