Workflow question (changing codegen)

[Ben Gamari]

Richard Eisenberg <rae at richarde.dev> writes:

> Just to pass on something that looks cool (I haven't tried it myself
> yet): git worktree. It seems git can hang several different checkouts
> of a repo in different directories. This seems far superior to my
> current habit of having many clones of ghc, sometimes going through
> machinations to get commits from one place to another. The
> documentation for git worktree seems quite approachable, so you might
> find it useful. I plan on using it in the future.
>
Indeed I use `git new-workdir`, which is a script similar to `git worktree`
(but I think predates `worktree` by a few years). Like `worktree`, this
allows you to have several working directories sharing a set of refs.

Cheers,

- Ben

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