Hi, I often like to work on multiple branches concurrently, to work around the fact that Servo builds are slow. The obvious way to do this is to just have multiple clones. That's what I do with Firefox (using Mercurial).
I've read that git 2.5 will have a `git checkout --to=path` command which will support multiple working branches from a single repo directly. (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6270193/multiple-working-directories-with-git/30185564#30185564.) So that's nice. But for Servo there's the added complication of having a rustc and a .cargo/ directory. It'd be nice to avoid having to download rustc twice if both clones require the same version. It'd also be nice to avoid building all the code in the .cargo/ directory twice, at least (again) when the versions match up. IIRC there is a way to specify that the .cargo/ directory should go somewhere else (and indeed it used to go in $HOME by default), though I don't know what it is. Anyway, I'm just wondering how other people deal with this. Thanks. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
