[pgrouting-dev] git newbie question

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 7/9/2011 5:40 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I actually never create directories, just switch branches with
> "checkout" command.
> The only issue there: it will prevent you from switching branches, when
> you made some changes to the source and didn't commit first.
>
> Is there any particular reason to keep them in separate directories?

Yes for just this reason. I often compile in the source tree which 
leaves artifacts and sometimes play with the code but stuff would never 
get committed like debug stuff.

-Steve

> Daniel
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jay,
>
>     Thanks. OK, that is interesting - it checks out the additional branch
>
>
>     woodbri at mappy:~/work/ pgrouting-git/pgrouting$ git branch
>     * gsoc-tdsp
>       master
>
>     and converts the cwd to that branch.  And I can switch the directory
>     between master and gsoc-tdsp with commands:
>
>     git checkout master
>     git checkout gsoc-tdsp
>
>     respectively. So this is close, but it does not look like it is easy
>     to create two directories one with each branch instantiated in it. I
>     suppose I could rsync the checked out view into another directory or
>     clone the repository for each separate instance I want and then
>     change the instance to the branch.
>
>     The rsync method seems to work but is a little awkward. Well if
>     anyone has any additional ideas, let me know.
>
>     -Steve
>
>
>     On 7/9/2011 2:11 PM, Jay Mahadeokar wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Firstly, I am also a newbie in git and I have only learned
>         commands that
>         I are utterly essential for me. But I guess this could work.
>
>         |git checkout -b gsoc-tdsp origin/gsoc-tdsp
>         |
>
>         Please refer [1] to be perfectly sure and also other options.
>
>         [1] http://progit.org/book/ch3-5. html
>         <http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html>
>
>         On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
>         <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
>         <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge. com
>         <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>>> wrote:
>
>             Hi all,
>
>             I have a git newbie question. I have checked out the git
>         repository:
>
>             woodbri at mappy:~/work/ pgrouting-git/pgrouting$ git branch -r
>               origin/HEAD
>               origin/darp
>               origin/debian
>               origin/debian-karmic
>               origin/debian-maverick
>               origin/debian-natty
>               origin/devel-2_0
>               origin/gsoc-multimodal
>               origin/gsoc-tdsp
>               origin/master
>               origin/pristine-tar
>               origin/snapshot
>               origin/snapshot-maverick
>               origin/unittests
>               origin/upstream
>             woodbri at mappy:~/work/ pgrouting-git/pgrouting$ git tag -l
>             debian/1.04-ppa12_lucid1
>             debian/1.05-1_karmic1
>             debian/1.05-1_lucid1
>             debian/1.05-1_maverick1
>             upstream/1.04
>             upstream/1.05
>             v1.05
>
>
>             what I would like to do is create a directory for the
>             gsoc-multimodal and gsoc-tdsp projects in say ../gsoc-tdsp and
>             ../gsoc-multimodal and I can not figure out how to do this.
>
>             ~/work/pgrouting-git/pgrouting  is currently master
>
>             and I would like to create these:
>
>             ~/work/pgrouting-git/gsoc-tdsp
>             ~/work/pgrouting-git/gsoc- multimodal
>
>             I'm sure there has to be a simple way to do this, but I'm
>         not seeing it.
>
>             Thanks,
>               -Steve
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>         --
>         Regards,
>         -Jay Mahadeokar
>