Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] using git

[Chris Hanson]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Taylor R Campbell<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   FYI, I generally don't use this workflow.  If I want to stage stuff
>   for release, I use branches.  I also use a build directory that's just
>   a bunch of symlinks pointing into the source directory.
>
> All I want to do is test my changes in a clean build directory as if
> someone else had just pulled them from the public repository.  So I
> want to store in `stage' what I intend to eventually push to the
> public repository, and make `build' pull from that.  How can I use
> branches to accomplish this?

Instead of trying to pull your changes into an existing repo, you
could just "git clone" the repo each time.

I don't know why "git pull" is failing this way, so that's the best I
can offer atm.