Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:12:49PM CEST, I got a letter
where Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> Hi, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >> Perhaps it's a naive question, but how do I switch between branches? I
> >> mean an equivalent of "svn switch" or "cvs update -r branch" that would
> >> reuse the existing working directory.
> >
> > you can't. There was 'git update' (and intermediate never-committed 'git
> > switch'), but I decided not to support it for now, since I don't have any
> > compelling usage case for it.
>
> I do -- I have a project which builds several slightly-customized versions,
> and I'd like to keep the generated objects around if possible.
>
> So I just build one version, then "git cancel FOO" to the next version,
> and let the make rules take care of rebuilding what needs to be rebuilt.
I suppose we could do with git switch then.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
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