Re: Managing multiple branches in git

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.
>
>     

Hmm.  I confess that I never switch between CVS branches. Instead I keep 
a separate tree for each maintained branch.  And that's what the 
buildfarm does and will continue doing with git. Maybe that's not as 
efficient a way for a developer to work, I don't know.

Of course, your work rate gives you much more weight in this discussion 
than me ;-)

cheers

andrew