Re: Working on master and branch_release-1-8 in the same repository

["Neil Jerram" <neiljerram@googlemail.com>]

2008/6/10 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
> Hi,
>
> "Neil Jerram" <neiljerram@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I find that when switching from master to branch_release-1-8, I
>> usually need to do a complete rebuild (i.e. make distclean, autogen,
>> configure, make, make check).  Do others find this too, or is there
>> something clever I can do to avoid it and still be sure that I'm
>> getting correct builds?
>
> I use `ccache', which helps reduce the time needed to recompile.

Thanks, that looks interesting, I'll try it.

> Of course, another solution is to store each branch in a separate
> directory.

Do you mean as separate (cloned) Git repositories?  If not, what
exactly do you mean?

Regards,
         Neil