Ivan, I wasn't aware of it, looks very interesting, thanks for sharing! On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 2:23 AM Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I just wanted to point out the git "worktree" command. I stumbled > across last year even though it's been around for a long, and it's > completely changed how I work with git. I guess others may also be > unaware of it. > > Basically it allows you to work on multiple checkouts of the same > repo. Which makes it very cheap to have multiple patches on the go at > once. > > Before using it, a common scenario for me was the following. I'd have > a patch up for review, and I would have moved on to working on > something else. Someone would make a comment on the review, and I'd > need to change something. I'd need commit or stash whatever I was > working on, checkout out the branch, make modifications, run the tests > (and not be able to touch the repo while it's running), push, and then > checkout/unstash the previous thing I had been working on and try to > rebuild all the context I had lost in my head. > > With worktree this isn't an issue. Before I create a PR, I usually > create a worktree in a directory called checkouts. > > git worktree add checkouts/some-pr-branch some-pr-branch > > Then if there are comments, I just open the file in that tree, modify > it, kick off tests, and go back to what I was working on. > > Anyhow, I thought this could be useful for folks who haven't come > across the feature yet. As I said, it's revolutionized how I work with > branches. > > [1] has further info. And there's the manpage obviously. > > Cheers, > Ivan > > [1] > https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/06/26/parallelize-development-git-worktrees/ > -- Pasha Kuznetsov Principal Software Engineer | Storage Cloud | Salesforce Mobile: +1 (319) 535-3858 | Linked.in/pasha-kuznetsov <https://www.linkedin.com/in/pasha-kuznetsov/> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/pasha-kuznetsov/> --
