Re: how to combine two clones in a collection

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2007, 20:00 UTC
Message-ID: <47015E14-FEA7-45C5-B9CB-C949B87B6494@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3644suki6.fsf@host32.eke.fi>

On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Kalle Pokki wrote:

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> 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.")

~~ Brian