From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking out a branch in another directory
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:23:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100903222351.GA26237@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <800379.5243.qm@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Hi Luben,
Luben Tuikov wrote:
> For the last 4 years, I've been using a home-brewed
> git-mkdir-of-branch.sh from a local branch, which basically creates
> a bunch of symlinks and then runs git-read-tree HEAD;
> git-checkout-index -u -q -f -a.
You might like contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir (shipped in
/usr/share/doc/git by most distros).
An occasional topic has been how to integrate this functionality
into "git clone". See [1], for example.
Good luck,
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150559/focus=151247
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 22:10 Checking out a branch in another directory Luben Tuikov
2010-09-03 22:23 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100903222351.GA26237@burratino \
--to=jrnieder@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=ltuikov@yahoo.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).