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[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A couple of years ago, I was modding a fresh install of Skyrim and thought, "I can use git branches to make it easy to switch between different mod combinations rather than uninstalling/reinstalling mods when something breaks or when I want to change things up." Worked well!

I had branches that were mostly vanilla with enhancements, and then branches that had all kinds of ridiculous mods. If I wanted to switch to playing a ridiculous build of Skyrim, I'd just close the game, checkout the branch I wanted, and start the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! Didn’t slow up too much with all the binary files? I guess you weren’t swapping around sets of 300 content mods either lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's been a couple of years, but I don't recall it being particularly slow switching between branches. I had a pretty beefy rig to begin with, which probably helped.