Re: Switching between branches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 21, 2005, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20050421163958.GI30991@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.04.21.14.12.46.905838@smurf.noris.de>

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:12:49PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> told me that...

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> Hi, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >> Perhaps it's a naive question, but how do I switch between branches?  I
> >> mean an equivalent of "svn switch" or "cvs update -r branch" that would
> >> reuse the existing working directory.
> > 
> > you can't. There was 'git update' (and intermediate never-committed 'git
> > switch'), but I decided not to support it for now, since I don't have any
> > compelling usage case for it.
> 
> I do -- I have a project which builds several slightly-customized versions,
> and I'd like to keep the generated objects around if possible.
> 
> So I just build one version, then "git cancel FOO" to the next version,
> and let the make rules take care of rebuilding what needs to be rebuilt.

I suppose we could do with git switch then.

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