On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:43, anand wrote: > I am using git for a fairly large win32 project. And I often switch > between 3 branches. Each branch represents different versions of the > same product that I work. One of them uses visual studio 2005 to build > while the other 2 use VS2008. The problem is, when I switch between > branches I have to rebuild the entire project every time. This becomes > a real pain when I have to switch between the branches many times a > day. To resolve the problem, I did a local clone of the repo but each > clone consumes nearly 2-3GB of space. Is there an efficient way that > uses less space (i.e reduce the need for clones) and reduces the need > to rebuild every time I switch between branches.
This sounds more like a problem with your build system. Can you put build artifacts in a release-dependent sub-directory? That might fix is all with a single repository and would be an approach I would consider. Alan -- Alan Hawrylyshen a l a n a t p o l y p h a s e d o t c a -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
