From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:14:26 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track multiple upstreams in one repository
Message-ID: <20090119021426.GA21999@shion.is.fushizen.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901181855400.20741@asgard.lang.hm>

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:58:06PM -0800, david@lang.hm 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.