Re: Git checkout preserve timestamp?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Michael Poole [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This all sounds a lot like git-clone's "alternate" code.
...
My own work habits are very similar to Bill Lear's, but my projects'
build times are small enough that it's less pain to rebuild half the
project than to propagate changes recorded under $GIT_DIR between
local branches.  I have not found a git workflow that makes me
entirely happy, but I suspect I just don't know the magic words.

These days I use a few working trees that are connected to my
primary repository (which also has a working tree).  The primary
repository is in /src/git, and other ones look like this:

: gitster git.wk0; ls -l .git/
total 120
drwxrwsr-x  3 junio src  4096 Mar  5 16:22 ./
drwxrwsr-x 15 junio src 16384 Mar  5 16:23 ../
-rw-rw-r--  1 junio src    41 Mar  5 16:22 HEAD
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    27 Mar  3 22:53 config -> /src/git/.git/config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    26 Mar  3 22:53 hooks -> /src/git/.git/hooks/
-rw-rw-r--  1 junio src 82455 Mar  5 16:22 index
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    25 Mar  3 22:53 info -> /src/git/.git/info/
drwxrwsr-x  3 junio src  4096 Mar  3 22:59 logs/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    28 Mar  3 22:53 objects -> /src/git/.git/objects/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    32 Mar  3 22:53 packed-refs -> /src/git/.git/packed-refs
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    25 Mar  3 22:53 refs -> /src/git/.git/refs/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    28 Mar  3 22:53 remotes -> /src/git/.git/remotes/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 junio src    29 Mar  3 22:53 rr-cache -> /src/git/.git/rr-cache/

By the way, doing something like this, but not by using lots of symlinks,
but a kind of symref was idea behind Josef Weidendorfer .gitlink idea
(search for '[RFC] Light-weight checkouts via ".gitlink"')

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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