Re: FYI: git worktrees as replacement for "rsync the CVSROOT"

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 03:01:47PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> Not sure how many people still use [1], as referenced by our git wiki[2],
>> but it appears git worktrees are a viable replacement for that technique. In
>> short, if you're already in your checkout:
>>
>> git worktree add ../9.6 REL9_6_STABLE
>>
>> would give you a checkout of 9.6 in the ../9.6 directory.
>>
>> BTW, I learned about this from this "git year in review" article[3].
>>
>> 1: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20090602162347.GF23972@yugib.highrise.ca
>> 2: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Git#Continuing_the_.22rsync_the_CVSROOT.22_workflow
>> 3: https://hackernoon.com/git-in-2016-fad96ae22a15?imm_mid=0ec3e0&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20170114#.shgj609ad
>
> Uh, I don't see this in git 2.1.4:
>
> $ git worktree
> git: 'worktree' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>
> which is in Debian Jessie. This reports worktree was added in 2.5,
> released in July 2015:

Backports has git 2.11.0. Just add the "jessie-backports" suite to your
sources list, e.g.:

deb http://ftp.<country>.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main

And install git from there:

sudo apt install git/jessie-backports

Apt won't upgrade other packages to backports versions, but any packages
you've manually installed from there will be kept up-to-date.

See https://backports.debian.org/ for more details.

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