From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:21:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel
Message-ID: <45A1727B.7070302@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pr21p0o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> 
>> Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
>> don't have this issue at all?
> 
> "clone -l -s" has been there for quote a long time (since mid Aug
> 2005).  Because -s implies -l since end of November 2005, you
> should be able to say
> 
> 	git clone --bare -s ..../torvalds/linux-2.6.git stable-queue.git

Yes but what about existing trees?

Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as 
if you had done a clone -s ?

	Jeff