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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 4, 2008, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802042128170.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47A78104.9050909@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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).

Something like this, yes. In my local version of git, you can say "git branch --new-workdir=../bla new-branch [branch-point]".

> Have you thought about using git-clone instead?

Briefly. But this is not about cloning the repository. It is about having an additional working directory for the current repository.

> 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).

It is an often-requested feature for clone, but we have "clone -n" for now, and nobody seemed to care deeply enough to actually do something about it.

But really, clone is something different. I _want_ the original repository to know that there is another working directory.

Ciao, Dscho