Git - separate folder for each branch. Setting it up

Question

I have a need to keep 3 branches in 3 separate folders. (I know this is not a git way of doing things. But I need to do this for a reason).

Lets say the repo name is

Answer 1

What you want to achieve has become simpler (or even trivial) since git 2.5 introduced the git worktree command.

Basically, your your git repo has now completely free number of checked out branches, called work tree:

• 0 (a bare repo)
• 1 (a normal repo)
• n > 1, a normal repo where you added n-1 work trees

If your repo already contains your branch, you can do:

git worktree add  

Or, if that branch isn't created yet and you want to branch off master:

git worktree add -b   master

Note that you can't checkout a branch in several directories simultaneously.