Re: need help adjusting workflow to git (or vice versa)

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:43:27 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>
>>> So how can I (i) keep a
>>> pristine copy of trunk (master) and (ii) build with possibly some local
>>> changes but without all changes from the task branch?
>>
>> From what I understand from here
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00790.html
>>
>> and subsequent comments you have to make a spearate clone.
>
> You can also use git new-workdir (not yet part of the git core, a proper
> replacement is being worked on).

I would be very surprised if either of these approaches is used by most
developers using git, because if so, I'd have expected them to be part
of the standard toolkit and well documented.  So I think my workflow is
suboptimal for git.  What do people who have several branches of a
single project repository and want to build from one of them without
including changes from another in the build usually do?  Isn't that a
common scenario, especially for Emacs developers?  What do you people do?

Steve Berman