# Re: git branch performance problem?

1 messages from 2007-10-12 to 2007-10-12. Participants: Salikh Zakirov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10259

## Salikh Zakirov, 2007-10-12 17:32

Subject: Re: git branch performance problem?
Message-ID: <20071012173221.GA5475@makoto.usen.ad.jp>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071012173221.GA5475%40makoto.usen.ad.jp

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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.

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