I finally got my head around Git with the help of torvista and swguy. So I have a XAMPP server set up locally. I never considered the ability of using git commands just like MS-DOS! lol That is really EASY!

I have cloned my fork of Zencart to c:/xampp/htdocs/zencart that I want to do normal local development on. Actually installed stores will need to have config files added. Do you just copy the distro-config.php files in and NOT add them to git?

But I also want to be able to test on 1.5.7 where the database will be different. To me this means a different Head and different config files. So, this morning I cloned the same fork a second time c:/xampp/htdocs/zc157 so I can keep the config files (and databases) unique and the same. For this clone, I want to reset the head to 157. From what I read, this should work with some warnings about branch management. I do not think my branches will be that complex.

Is this viable?