Re: How to clone 1.12 branch source code

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>
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 écrit :
>
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:31 AM, wsgd <wsgd () free fr> wrote:
> > > > Must be possible to clone directly the good branch, no ?
> > > >
> > > > > git clone --branch master-1.12 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.


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