Re: More help needed on merging unrelated repos

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 4, 2008, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <4910ACCA.7080007@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660811040514qc6c9663u17bd231e1ba662ad@mail.gmail.com>

Christian MICHON wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I previously posted here a question on how to merge unrelated repos,
> and I was quite happy with the answer.
> git pull repo_name repo_branch
> 
> Yet, when I merge these repos (they're unrelated), I'd like to merge
> all of them at once.
> 
> How do I pull for example 2 repos in 1 command ? I cannot figure out
> the exact syntax to use.
> 
> I tried:
> git pull ../i1 0.5 ../i2 master
> git pull ../i1 0.5 -- ../i2 master
> 
> I also tried to play with --no-commit and -s to no avail.
> 
> Does anyone of you already use this and knows the trick ? Thanks in advance!
>

You can only pull from a single repository at a time. The first way of doing what you want that comes to mind is:

  git remote add lib1 lib1url
  git remote add lib2 lib2url
  git fetch lib1 && git fetch lib2 && git merge lib1/master lib2/master

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