Re: Managing multiple branches in git

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> Umm, no. there are *no* ,v files in my working copies (I just checked,
> to make sure I wasn't on crack). The repository has them, but the
> working copy does not. SVN does keep the equivalent - that's how you can
> work offline for doing things like 'svn diff'. But it makes the repo
> quite ugly, in fact. Running recursive grep on a subversion working copy
> is quite nasty.

grep -r? No need to use that anymore when a tool like ack is available.
It ignores .svn dirs by default, and basically works the way most
people wish grep worked:

http://betterthangrep.com/

I also agree with Tom Lane elsewhere in this thread that a lot of this is
what may turn out to be pointless wheel spinning: certainly other big
projects (esp. Linux) must have encountered and solved these problems?
Anyone know a kernel hacker / git expert?

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