On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 07:43:04PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > And I do just prefer having two directories rather than multiple > > version on top of each other. My simple brain finds it a lot easier to > > keep track of a version directory to diff between, rather than finding > > the right runes to get git to give meld faked-up directories pointing > > at revisions or branches. > > I found this paragraph really interesting because reading your other emails I > was wondering "well but how else do you do it then??" :D Maybe this is just > muscle memory? Your directories are just my git branches. Instead of "cd > ../source-verX" I'd do "git switch verX". Personally, I find git branches > superior to directories because the git commit messages in each branch allow me > to describe what this feature-branch is doing much better than a directory name > could. A stack of commits in a branch allows me to trace back what changes I > did in what order when I worked on a feature. By pushing the branches to salsa, > I enable collaboration on my work by doing not much more than running "git push > --set-upstream origin myfeature". And of course git can emulate the other workflow using git-worktree. -- WBR, wRAR
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