Using local trees and cogito

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

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I took Jeff Garzik's scripts for managing multiple trees and reworked
them a little for cogito. I changed the names to something that makes
more sense to me, but what does everyone think? Or can cogito already
do this I just can't figure it out?

In my terminology forks are different tree heads in the same git tree
(local branches).

cg-fork fname -- make a new tree head from the current tree and switch to it.
cg-goto fname -- switch the current working tree to one of the forks.
cg-goto -- display the name of the current fork
cg-goto -l -- display the name of all forks
cg-diff fname -- diff the current working tree to a fork
cg-merge fname -- merge another fork into the current fork

I fixed goto to not jump if there are pending changes. Is there a
better way to do this?

Is fork a good name since branches refer to other git trees? I'm
somewhat confused about exactly what a branch consists of, it looks to
me like the path to another external tree.

I do find Jeff's work very useful since it allows me to keep twenty
patches in a single tree and jump between them. This is better than bk
where I had to keep multiple entire trees with a build in each of
them. This way I only rebuild the files that changed after a jump.

One problem I did notice is that if you add file in a fork and jump to
a fork without the file, it doesn't get removed. That's not a big
problem but it can be confusing.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

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#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -d .git/refs/heads ]
then
	echo Cannot find .git metadata, aborting.
	exit 1
fi

FN=".git/refs/heads/$1"

if [ -f $FN ]
then
	echo Branch $1 exists, moving to $1.old.
	mv -f $FN $FN.old
fi

cp .git/refs/heads/master $FN

cg-goto $1


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#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" == "-l" ]
then
	ls .git/refs/heads
elif [ "x$1" != "x" ]
then
	if [ ! -f .git/refs/heads/$1 ]
	then
		echo Branch $1 not found.
		exit 1
	fi
	diff=$(git-diff-cache -r -p HEAD)
	if [ "x$diff" != "x" ]
	then
		echo "Commit pending changes first"
		exit 1
	fi
	( cd .git && rm -f HEAD && ln -s refs/heads/$1 HEAD )

	git-read-tree -m HEAD && git-checkout-cache -q -f -u -a
else
	readlink .git/HEAD
fi