Re: Managing multiple branches in git

On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> Yeah, with git, rather than cd'ing to another directory, you'd just  
>> do
>> `git checkout rel8_3` and work from the same directory.
>
> That's what I'd gathered, and frankly it is not an acceptable answer.
> Sure, the "checkout" operation is remarkably fast, but it does nothing
> for derived files.  What would really be involved here (if I wanted to
> be sure of having a non-broken build) is
>     make maintainer-clean
>     git checkout rel8_3
>     configure
>     make
> which takes long enough that I'll have plenty of time to consider
> how much I hate git.  If there isn't a better way proposed, I'm
> going to flip back to voting against this conversion.  I need tools
> that work for me not against me.

Well, you can have as many clones of a repository as you like. You can  
keep one with master checked out, another with rel8_3, another with  
rel8_2, etc. You'd just have to write a script to keep them in sync  
(shouldn't be too difficult, each just as all the others as an origin  
-- or maybe you have one that's canonical on your system).

Best,

David