Re: Managing multiple branches in git

On 06/03/2009 01:39 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler"<david@kineticode.com>  writes:
>> Does that make sense?
> I can't escape the feeling that we're missing something basic here.
> It's allegedly one of git's great strengths that it allows you to easily
> and quickly switch your attention among multiple development branches.
> Well, so it does, if you haven't got any derived files to rebuild.
> But rebuilding the Linux kernel is hardly a zero-cost operation,
> so how have Linus and co failed to notice this problem?  There
> must be some trick they're using that I haven't heard about, or
> they'd not be nearly so pleased with git.
Building out of tree and ccache are frequently mentioned.

Andres