• CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Seems handy, but all the typical git caveats apply:

    • “Here’s a cool feature! NEVER USE IT THIS WAY OR YOU’LL RUIN YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY!
    • Here’s a cool feature, it’s actually old and has no standard usage so everyone you meet will be subtly misusing it differently
    • Here’s why you should use my workflow instead of yours: Demonstrates a process with 2 less steps but also he skips the cleanup steps so actually its the same amount of work

    Fossil also supports this out of the box: you can have as many checkouts of a repo as you want against different branches, and it tries to prevent you from accidentally nesting repositories instead of opening new checkouts.