JJZolx wrote: 
> To run both 7.7 and 7.8, that means I need to do two clones, and
> checkout 7.7 in one and 7.8 in the other, correct?Yes, you could do that, but 
> it's not necessary.  It literally only takes
a few seconds to switch a 7.8 branch checkout to 7.7.  And I don't think
there are any prefs or database differences, so you could potentially
share prefs and data between the branches.  

Or, you can do as I do, and keep separate cache & prefs dirs for each
checked out version that you run.

You could write a switch-branch batch file to accomplish this with
minimal effort.  That's what I do on linux...I have a shell script that
automates all the housekeeping that I do when I switch branches.  

For my purposes, to make sure that my plugins still run with legacy
squeezecenter code, I checked out 7.3.4 and then copied the whole
directory tree and then deleted the .git dir in the new (static) 7.3.4
folder.  (Then I spent a lot of time getting 7.3.4 to run with perl
5.14.2, but that's another matter).  But anyway, that's another
approach: if you have a branch that you know won't see any more updates,
then check it out and then "orphan" it from the git repo.


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