Hi RJ,

Ah cool, Thank you!

This looks like a git alias candidate.

Or is it possible to make scons copy *_build to cache instead of move, if
there is no previously saved cache/new_work?

Kind regards,

Daniel




2013/7/2 RJ Ryan <rr...@mixxx.org>

> As of
> https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/commit/a47ae69cabbdabcec417e3b268a0d21fafccab1e:
>
> .sconsign.branch in the repository root now tells which branch the *_build
> and .sconsign.dblite files relate to.
>
> If .sconsign.branch does not match git's current branch, *_build and
> .sconsign.dblite are moved to cache/$oldbranch/ and files from
> cache/$newbranch/ are moved to the root. So if you are on master, your
> cache/master folder should be empty. I originally tried symlinks and
> SCons.Environment.SConsignFile but that caused the strange build issues I
> talk about in the commit message.
>
> If you switch to a new branch:
> $ git checkout -b new_work
>
> You can do this:
>
> $ mkdir -p cache/new_work
> $ cp -rf *_build cache/new_work/
> $ cp .sconsign.dblite cache/new_work/sconsign.dblite
>
> (Note the file is .sconsign.dblite in the root but sconsign.dblite in the
> cache/new_work folder. I probably should have made them the same name for
> clarity).
>
> Then run scons. SCons will move the current *_build and .sconsign.dblite
> to cache/master and then move the copies from cache/new_work/ to the root.
> If this is not working for you check to make sure that when you are on a
> branch (e.g. master) that cache/$branchname is totally empty because the
> *_build folder and .sconsign.dblite should be in the root.
>
> If it's a quick throw-away branch you can also do:
>
> $ scons virtualize=0  (reuses existing .sconsign.dblite and *_build folder
> in the root without moving anything around)
>
> and just do virtualize=1 when you switch back to master to turn on build
> folder virtualization again.
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Schürmann <dasch...@mixxx.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid a complete rebuild when creating a new branch?
>>
>> If I do something like this:
>> $ git checkout -b bugfix1
>>
>> scons does a complete rebuild even nothing has changed. This is a great
>> annoying time eater for me.
>>
>> I have tried to copy move the cache/master to cache/bugfix1 but scons
>> still wants a complete rebuild.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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