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Julian Phillips 4f01748d51 contrib/workdir: add a simple script to create a working directory
Add a simple script to create a working directory that uses symlinks
to point at an exisiting repository.  This allows having different
branches in different working directories but all from the same
repository.

Based on a description from Junio of how he creates multiple working
directories[1].  With the following caveat:

"This risks confusion for an uninitiated if you update a ref that
is checked out in another working tree, but modulo that caveat
it works reasonably well."

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/41513/

Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-31 01:26:28 -07:00

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#!/bin/sh
usage () {
echo "usage:" $@
exit 127
}
die () {
echo $@
exit 128
}
if test $# -lt 2 || test $# -gt 3
then
usage "$0 <repository> <new_workdir> [<branch>]"
fi
orig_git=$1
new_workdir=$2
branch=$3
# want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ...
test -d "$orig_git/.git" || die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!"
# don't link to a workdir
if test -L "$orig_git/.git/config"
then
die "\"$orig_git\" is a working directory only, please specify" \
"a complete repository."
fi
# make sure the the links use full paths
orig_git=$(cd "$orig_git"; pwd)
# create the workdir
mkdir -p "$new_workdir/.git" || die "unable to create \"$new_workdir\"!"
# create the links to the original repo. explictly exclude index, HEAD and
# logs/HEAD from the list since they are purely related to the current working
# directory, and should not be shared.
for x in config refs logs/refs objects info hooks packed-refs remotes rr-cache
do
case $x in
*/*)
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$new_workdir/.git/$x")"
;;
esac
ln -s "$orig_git/.git/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x"
done
# now setup the workdir
cd "$new_workdir"
# copy the HEAD from the original repository as a default branch
cp "$orig_git/.git/HEAD" .git/HEAD
# checkout the branch (either the same as HEAD from the original repository, or
# the one that was asked for)
git checkout -f $branch