On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:58 AM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:58:06PM -0800, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> for linux I want to track both the linus tree and the -stable tree.
>>> Ideally I want to be able to do a checkout of tags from either tree from
>>> the same directory (along with diffs between items in both trees, etc)
>>>
>>> I have found documentation on how to clone from each of them, but I
>>> haven't found any simple documentation on how to work with both of them.
>>
>> After cloning from one:
>> git remote add remotename git://...
>> git fetch remotename
>>
>> You will now have the other repository fetched into your local
>> repository; tags from both will be replicated to your local tags.
>
> thanks, given the nature of git I figured it was something really simple,
> but I just wasn't able to find it.
>
> I've forwarded this to the kernel.org webmaster to update the 'how to follow
> linux development' page
>
> David Lang
I use something even simpler, please see the attached .git/config
file that I use. It also uses remote branches, and rewrites the refs
to something like: stable/v2.6.25/master or torvalds/v2.6/master. Also
in order to fetch them I use git fetch stable/v2.6.25
Ciprian Craciun.
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