From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:18:31 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track multiple upstreams in one repository
Message-ID: <4973E2F7.2090104@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901181855400.20741@asgard.lang.hm>

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.

Attached are what I use. It's not pretty but it's works for me; YMMV.


export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="@"
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="@"

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git/git

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk.git gitk/gitk

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/sparse.git torvalds/sparse

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git torvalds/linux-2.6

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.11.y.git stable/linux-2.6.11.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.12.y.git stable/linux-2.6.12.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.13.y.git stable/linux-2.6.13.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.14.y.git stable/linux-2.6.14.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.15.y.git stable/linux-2.6.15.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git stable/linux-2.6.16.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git stable/linux-2.6.17.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.18.y.git stable/linux-2.6.18.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.19.y.git stable/linux-2.6.19.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git stable/linux-2.6.20.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git stable/linux-2.6.21.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git stable/linux-2.6.22.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git stable/linux-2.6.23.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git stable/linux-2.6.24.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git stable/linux-2.6.25.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git stable/linux-2.6.26.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git stable/linux-2.6.27.y
./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git stable/linux-2.6.28.y

./fred.sh git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git tglx/history