From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:34:30 GMT
Subject: Re: multiple checked out branches
Message-ID: <20070801223430.GC2911@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070801220435.GA19226@raptus.dandreoli.com>

Domenico Andreoli, Thu, Aug 02, 2007 00:04:35 +0200:
> 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"