On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Michai Ramakers <m.ramak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> slight revisit of this post: > > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/pipermail/fossil-users/2014-March/015613.html > > How do you normally switch between checkouts (assuming there are no > local changes)? I'd use either 'update' or 'checkout', but both can > leave files that were not originally in the target-checkout (and which > are not detected by 'extra', thus are not cleaned by 'clean'). > There was a recent thread about this where, as i remember it, the summary was: a) DRH uses 'update' to switch b) i use checkout - didn't even know update could be used that way until DRH mentioned it. and the audience was fairly evenly split on both approaches, IIRC. > What I do now is delete by hand the subtree of the working copy I'm > interested in (thus avoiding any possible leftover files after the > checkout), and then doing 'checkout --force MyTag'. > > I noticed 'checkout --force' is rather slow (didn't investigate > further or try on different machines), and thus I wonder how silly > this is compared to just opening the repo multiple times - once for > each desired checkout/tag. > As Ron says: disk space is cheap, at least on workstations running fossil. i occasionally swap between branches for quick work using 'co' but when i need to do something more invasive i 'open' a second copy. It's rare, though. PS: i'd be interested to know what makes --force slower, if you find out. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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