Re: git branch performance problem?

From: Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <470FAC97.5070904@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f329bf540710101926vedf8b19p52e3eeb193203d03@mail.gmail.com>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> For cherrypicking convenience, I would still appreciate it if there
> was a mechanism similar to alternates that would allow me to view
> objects from an alternate repo; objects found through this mechanism
> should never be assumed to be present in the database, of course.

There exist a script contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir, which creates a new working copy that literally shares the same object store. It will share both object store and branches, so some care must be taken: branch which checkout out in one shared working directory must never be updated (committed or pulled into) from the other shared working directory.

Said that, I personally find this trick very useful for browsing alternate branch code and quick bug fixing.