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Re: multiple checked out branches

From
DADomenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2007, 00:02 UTC
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<20070802000217.GA20018@raptus.dandreoli.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0708012309010.28202@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:19:25PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:
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> The biggest issue with doing this is that you have no protection against 
> making changes on the same branch in more than one place - something you 
> really don't want to be dealing with.  Basically you need to be careful 
> about updating refs that you have checkedout in workdirs.

Yes, I figured out this would have been a problem after thinking at it a bit more. I surely do not want to be careful about acting on the same branch in two working repositories at the same place.

The actual problem is that switching form a branch to another makes my autotools fuck and I have to rebuild stuff all the time. My box is still a faint-hearted single core...

cheers, Domenico

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  1. Domenico AndreoliAug 1, 2007
  2. Julian PhillipsAug 1, 2007
  3. Domenico AndreoliAug 2, 2007
  4. Guilhem BonnefilleAug 2, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenAug 1, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 1, 2007

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