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Re: Question about your git habits

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Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Date
Feb 23, 2008, 10:39 UTC
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>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Junio> Many people prefer to use topic branches, and working in a Junio> single repository with multiple branches and switching branches Junio> without ever cd'ing around is certainly a possible and very Junio> valid way to work. As long as your build infrastructure is Junio> sane (e.g. your project does not have a central header file Junio> that any little subsystem change needs to modify and included Junio> by everybody, which tends to screw up make quite badly), Junio> switching branches would not incur too much recompilation Junio> either and it obviously will save disk space not having to Junio> leave multiple checkout around.

And even in this case (central header file), ccache will greatly decrease compilation time in the case of a C/C++ project.

  Sam
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