From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:39:58 GMT Subject: Re: Switching between branches Message-ID: <20050421163958.GI30991@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:12:49PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias Urlichs told me that... > 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor