git working on two branches simultaneously

Question

Hi,

I have project with many branches. I would like to work on these simultaneously without switching back and forth with git checkout. Is there any way I can do that besides copying whole repository somewhere else?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not really as Git only supports to have one working copy of the repository data within the repository directory.

If you want to commit/pull to the same repository with two different working copies, you could create a bare repository and clone it to two working copies.

Whenever you have finished something, you simply push to the "main" bare repository.

Some hints:

man git-clone

git clone --bare

Answer 2

Take a look at $GIT_SRC_DIR/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir.