[howto] Creating Calligra 2.6 workdir

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Hi,
A cool update from the git guys: If you are user of git-new-workdir as
advertised at [0],
git 2.5.0 allows to replace it with a new 'git-worktree' built-in command.

More: https://blogs.kde.org/2015/08/03/git-worktree


On 28 October 2012 at 19:29, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> If you know the git-new-workdir based workflow you can stop reading.
>
> Otherwise it's good to repeat this advice.
>
> From http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building#Working_with_multiple_versions:
>
> "You will often want to have more than one build environment in
> parallel, for example if you want to work on both stable and unstable
> branches at the same time or several feature branches. "
>
> So the usage for today is based on git-new-workdir <repository>
> <new_workdir> [<branch>]:
>
> $ cd ~/src/dev/
> $ git-new-workdir calligra calligra-2.6 calligra/2.6
> Checking out files: 100% (18072/18072), done.
> Branch calligra/2.6 set up to track remote branch calligra/2.6 from origin.
> Switched to a new branch 'calligra/2.6'
>
> Voila, I have 'separately cloned' calligra/2.6 branch in calligra-2.6
> subdir within a few seconds, based on calligra/ clone (master) and
> saved most of the ~300MB of disk space.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
>  Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org
>  Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org
>  http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek



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