On 06/16/14 11:05, Evan Huus wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
[I merged a couple of forks of this thread to show more history
before responding.]
On 06/15/14 10:51, Richard Sharpe wrote:
Le 15/06/2014 14:02, Jeff Morriss a �crit :
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:31 AM, wsgd <wsgd@xxxxxxx
<mailto:wsgd@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Must be possible to clone directly the good branch, no ?
>> git clone --branch master-1.12
https://code.wireshark.org/__review/wireshark
<https://code.wireshark.org/review/wireshark> master-1.12
Why would you want to do that when you can clone the whole thing and
then just check out what you want?
Why clone master when you really want master-1.12?
Before I RTFM'd and discovered the --branch command I used to do as
you suggest but it seemed quite a waste:
git clone [...] master-1.12
git checkout origin/master-1.12 -b master-1.12
git branch -D master
Note that I really want a separate directory that is dedicated to
master-1.12. The whole do-everything-in-one-directory thing takes
entirely too long (right now I can test a fuzz failure against 3 or
more branches in parallel without even having to wait for a
recompile let alone deal with all the mess that gets left behind
when switching major branches--look at git status after switching
from a master-1.10 compile to master for an example).
On Unixen (all non-windows platforms) git ships with an additional
script hidden away called 'git-new-workdir' which allows you to do just
that by using symlinks, so you can have multiple working directories on
multiple branches, all working off of a single actual clone.
Caveats are:
- I have no idea how to do that on Windows
- If you accidentally break the implicit rules (i.e. you checkout master
in your master-1.12 directory) all hell breaks loose.
Yeah, I saw that mentioned here before but never bothered. Disk space
is cheap. :-) (And I've already had to wipe out and rebuild my git
directories enough times that I'm wary of trying any new commands...)
