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 code from different branch and quick bug fixing.