Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2014, #08; Mon, 31)

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2014, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BVXk248VDBi-pAMDY4QpDSbFuAf5qxRxCCq71yGNzpqA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq38hw272q.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>> Unfortunately, this multiple checkout thing conflicts with how I
>> use emacs (--daemon) so I'm not one of its heavy users either. I
>> only occastionally make new, short-lived checkouts to test things.
>
> FWIW, I do keep a permanent multi-checkout and I sometimes make
> edits, but it is mostly for building other branches while I work on
> something else.  When I edit working-tree files there, I do let
> emacsclient talk to the emacs I have files open in the primary
> working tree, though, so I am not sure what your issues are with
> emacs (--daemon).

The --daemon part is probably not worth mentioning because I always have one emacs window open. The problem is switch-buffer based on file name can be confusing ("git.c" and "git.c<2>", which belongs to which checkout?). I ended up modifying files in the wrong checkout all the time.

-- 
Duy