Re: how to combine two clones in a collection
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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
- Date
- Jul 10, 2007, 23:45 UTC
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tisdag 10 juli 2007 skrev Brian Gernhardt:
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> > On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Kalle Pokki wrote: > > > You can also just create two different git repositories and start > > making > > the commits in the master (or any other) branch. Then combine the > > repositories by fetching > > > > cd repo1 > > git fetch ../repo2 master:repo2 > > > > This way the branches don't share anything, do they? > > Yes, that's what I was referring to at the end when I wrote: > > > You could also create the branch in a second repository and pull it > > from there into the first (probably simpler), > > But it seemed too simple. ;-) And that is exactly how I'd do it... > Assuming I thought of it before using write-tree, commit-tree, and > update-ref. (Which is what happened. I thought of the complicated > method and wrote it up before thinking "duh, just use a second repo.")
And the simplest way to create an new indpendent branch:
echo ref: refs/heads/newbranch >.git/HEAD Then prepare the content and commit like you used to do.
-- robin