Re: Managing multiple branches in git

Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Yeah, with git, rather than cd'ing to another directory, you'd just do
>> `git checkout rel8_3` and work from the same directory.
>>
>
> That's what I'd gathered, and frankly it is not an acceptable answer.
> Sure, the "checkout" operation is remarkably fast, but it does nothing
> for derived files. What would really be involved here (if I wanted to
> be sure of having a non-broken build) is
> make maintainer-clean
> git checkout rel8_3
> configure
> make
> which takes long enough that I'll have plenty of time to consider
> how much I hate git. If there isn't a better way proposed, I'm
> going to flip back to voting against this conversion. I need tools
> that work for me not against me.
>
>

Hmm. I confess that I never switch between CVS branches. Instead I keep
a separate tree for each maintained branch. And that's what the
buildfarm does and will continue doing with git. Maybe that's not as
efficient a way for a developer to work, I don't know.

Of course, your work rate gives you much more weight in this discussion
than me ;-)

cheers

andrew