Re: The move to git!

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2010/7/30 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 09:49 +0100, pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Excellent news! Thanks for all the work.
>>
>> One thing I've never got around to working out how to do in git which
>> is different from previous is dealing with branches. Where previously
>> it was as simple as changing directories to deal with the various
>> fedora releases obviously with real branches now we need to do
>> something a little differnet. Could someone update the docs with
>> details how to do this? I retried "fedpkg switch-branch f-13" (and
>> various other possible branch names) and using a "git branch" didn't
>> give me any branches other than master. Could we also add some extra
>> branch related commands to indicate things like listing the current
>> branch, a list of all branches, and how we would commit a new spec to
>> more than one branch.
>>
> I'm not sure how it works if you do "fedpkg clone -B libfoo", but
> probably similar to the CVS setup. If you do just "fedpkg clone" the
> branches are managed in git only so the "fedpkg switch-branch f13"
> indeed switches you to f13 branch even though it looks like master ;-)
>
> Personally I use "git merge <branch-to-merge-from>" to sync the branches
> (if I have same spec for more than one branch).
>

I think using git merge or git cherry-pick will be better than coping
files from other branch like cvs, git is much smarter than cvs.


Regards,
Chen Lei
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