Re: more compiling questions

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/20/09 8:14 AM, "Jean-Charles Malahieude" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le 20/12/2009 05:19, Carl Sorensen disait :
>> On 12/19/09 7:29 PM, "Mark Polesky" wrote:
>> 
>>> 2) If I'm running `make' or `make doc', can I continue to
>>>     work on git, changing branches, making commits, etc.?  I
>>>     assume no, but if someone knows, let me know.
>>> 
>> 
>> You can't change branches, because that changes the files that make is
>> working on.
>> 
>> You can make a commit, because a commit doesn't change the files, it just
>> changes the git database, which make doesn't use.
>> 
>> You can't edit files, because make needs them.
>> 
>> If you really want to do this, you can set up two different local
>> repositories, and run make in one then do further work on the other.  You
>> could sync them through a remote repository that you could set up on
>> repo.or.cz.
>> 
> 
> That's the reason why I use a "local clone". Here is my tree :
> 
>   GIT |-- Lily
>       |-- Mentors
>       \-- Traduc
> 
> Lily is synchronized with the remote. You then create Mentors :
> 
> Lily]$ git checkout master
> Lily]$ git clone -l -s -n . ../Mentors
>   Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jcharles/GIT/Mentors/.git/
> Lily]$ cd ../Mentors/
> Mentors]$ git reset --hard
> 
> you do whatever you want in Mentors while compile is running in Lily.
> Later on you pull/push Mentors from/to Lily.

What a cool idea!  I never thought of cloning a local repository locally!

 
> I've written (in French for the moment) a kind of "howto" dedicated to
> those who would like to help me translating and know nothing about git,
> emacs and all other aliens. If you are intersted, let me know.

Please let us see it. I think I know enough French to figure out what you've
written.

Thanks,

Carl