Re: can I use multiple worktree in same git repo ?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2011, 18:17 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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. [...]

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> 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.

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Jakub Narebski