Re: multiple checked out branches

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> Domenico Andreoli, Thu, Aug 02, 2007 00:04:35 +0200:
> > 
> >   I would like to contemporaneously work with multiple branches out of
> > the same git repository. This does not work out of the box.
> > 
> > So I prepare multiple copies of the same repository, every one will have
> > its own checked out branch but I want to share most of their .git subdir.
> > 
> > I surely want to share the object db, the local and remote refs.
> > This way it is enough to make a round of fetches/merges/pushes to have
> > all the shared-repositories up to date.
> > 
> > I expect to do the trick with some symlinks but I am not an expert of
> > git internals. Which traps are waiting me? Any hint? Thank you.
> > 
> 
> No traps. Supported. See for "git clone -s" and "git clone -l"

That is not completely what is wanted, AFAIU:  "git clone -s" and "git 
clone -l" allow for unsynchronised branches.  For example, when you 
committed to branch "foo" in the cloned repo, branch "foo" in the original 
repo will be older until you push.

Ciao,
Dscho