From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:22:15 GMT
Subject: Re: can I use multiple worktree in same git repo ?
Message-ID: <20110721182215.GA9505@kolya>
In-Reply-To: <m3sjpzsdll.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:17:57AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:54 PM, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in> wrote:
> > > As a result whenever there is a commit , it updates the related folder in filesystem.
> > > Say a commit at svn->mysite-repo->dir1->trunk->src ==> modify ==> /var/www/demo/dir1
> > >
> > > Can I do the same in git with multiple worktree ? possible ?
> > 
> > Using multiple worktree with the same repo won't work in git because
> > the repo also have worktree-related information. [...]
> [...]
> > Also have a look at git-new-workdir in contrib directory of git
> > repository. I don't use it but you might find it useful.
> 
> Actually with git-new-workdir you can have multiple working
> directories associated with single repository, by the way of symlinks.
> 
> Note however that if you intend to *work* in those workdirs, they
> better correspond to different branches... or you can mess something
> heavy.

It would be possible to use the .git-file feature here. Then symlinks are
avoided and the solution is portable.

Med vänliga hälsningar
Fredrik