Re: Switching between branches

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:12:49PM CEST, I got a letter
where Matthias Urlichs [off-list ref] told me that...

Hi, Petr Baudis wrote:

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Hello,

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Perhaps it's a naive question, but how do I switch between branches?  I
mean an equivalent of "svn switch" or "cvs update -r branch" that would
reuse the existing working directory.

you can't. There was 'git update' (and intermediate never-committed 'git
switch'), but I decided not to support it for now, since I don't have any
compelling usage case for it.

I do -- I have a project which builds several slightly-customized versions,
and I'd like to keep the generated objects around if possible.

So I just build one version, then "git cancel FOO" to the next version,
and let the make rules take care of rebuilding what needs to be rebuilt.

I suppose we could do with git switch then.

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