On 3/19/15, Abilio Marques <abili...@gmail.com> wrote: > After reading Mr. Hipp answer to some previous email about git saying: > > So the staging area is being used as a way of working around the fact > that Git does not allow multiple independent check-outs against the > same repository? Am I understanding that correctly? > > I started to think: what does it mean to have "multiple independent > check-outs"? And I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep well because of not > knowing. So I created a new test repo, and began: > > mkdir test > cd test > fossil new test.fossil > mkdir a b > cd a > fossil open ../test.fossil > echo "file a" > a.txt > cd .. > cd b > fossil open ../test.fossil > echo "file b" > b.txt > cd .. > fossil status # replied not within an open checkout > > Then went to commit in each subdirectory... then did a status... both > reflected the check-ins in the correct order... and the other directories > weren't there. Actually going to a (the first commited one) and running > fossil update trunk did: > > ADD b.txt > REMOVE a.txt > > So far seems magic, as I don't seem to grasp the power, uses and > implications for it. Is there any documentation? This is my first approach > to what Mr. Hipp said. Am I mistaken? >
You are doing it right. There is no documentation because I could not conceive of wanting to use a VCS in any other way. Scenario: You want to compare the performance of two different versions of the project. So you do two simultaneous checkouts, in separate directories, and run speed tests on each. Scenario: You in the middle of a big change when a support request from a customer comes in that requires you to work on a release from a year ago. No need to "stash" all the changes you are in the middle of, just open the older version in a separate directory - make changes there and branch it if necessary, then go back to what you were doing. Scenario: Do simultaneous builds with different compile-time options for the same version of the code in three separate directories. Scenario: Work on four separate branches, all at the same time, located in four separate directories. Scenario: Be editing code in a branch while simultaneously running a bisect is on trunk. And so forth.... -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
