Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Feb 4, 2008, 21:17 UTC
Message-ID: <47A78104.9050909@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802021825220.7372@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Show 6 quoted lines

> Hi,
> 
> BTW just to tell you why I am so excited with your patch: I have a patch 
> to git-branch in my tree, which implements the git-new-workdir 
> functionality (it's a patch to git-branch, not git-checkout, mainly 
> because git-checkout is no builtin yet).

Are you planning something that works like:

  $ cd <my_repo>
  $ git branch
    * master
      other_branch
  $ git checkout --new-workdir ../<other_work_dir> other_branch

(not sure how it would work using git-branch).

Have you thought about using git-clone instead?

It seems a good fit but would require a new option to specify a branch to checkout (which I believe is a requested feature for clone). --shared seems like a good option name*, too bad it's already taken. But how about --conjoined to communicate that the new repo and the original repo are "attached at the hip"?

  $ git clone --conjoined -b other_branch <my_repo> <other_work_dir>

-brandon

* I really do think "shared" is the most appropriate since _both_
  repos would be sharing, rather than the current meaning or shared which
  is just a short-hand for --reference and in which the original repo gets
  nothing from the selfish "sharer".