Re: multiple checked out branches
Domenico Andreoli, Thu, Aug 02, 2007 00:04:35 +0200:
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> Hi again,
>
> 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"