Hi Michael,
You are right about the historical perspective.
However the `Worktrees` is a new feature.
So yes, you can now have the different branches checked out in differemt
trees, and other goodies.
Philip
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From: "Michael" <keybou...@gmail.com>
To: <git-users@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 5:45 PM
Subject: [git-users] "Medium" git: Worktrees, submodules, subtrees
(I hope this isn't considered "advanced" git.)
So I just recently found out about worktrees, that let you have two
different working trees from the same repository. (NB: Originally, I thought
I had learned that git only supported one work tree per repository, but had
a special "hardlink" to let two repositories share disk space on the same
drive -- did I misunderstand something?).
Now, there's submodules, and subtrees. I'd like a bit of an explanation
here.
A submodule is at least at first simple enough: you have a subproject with
it's own history. But that's about all I understand about it.
I can't tell if there's any way to convert a sub directory of a project into
a submodule, or visa-versa, or if it is a "lifetime" choice.
And the man page on submodules talks about a "subtree merge strategy", and
I'm not sure I've even heard that before.
So: Help? Please? Confused?
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