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Hi, On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:07 PM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Josef,
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:31 PM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
My main problem with git was the treatment of the file system, and I find it much easier to work with separate branches as in bzr or mercurial.
One thing I've found very useful after transitioning to git for IPython is the git new-workdir command:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/5/21/1900044 http://nuclearsquid.com/writings/git-new-workdir.html
It lets me keep a few branches around that I want 'permanent' on my filesystem, in a bzr shared-repo style, while using git for the lightweight feature-only branches. This is how it looks like right now on my system:
thanks very useful information , git-new-workdir seems to be what I would like. Does it work on Windows?
Sadly - probably not without a little hacking... http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=99 But, if you think you need it, the script is so short that it would only take a short time to port to python (it's in sh): http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/workdir/git-new-... I see there are symbolic links there, that will require a little fancy footwork on windows, as you know. If I have time I'll give it a go. See you, Matthew