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Re: How to create independent branches

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 8, 2006, 21:00 UTC
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> Wouldn't it be better to separate it to two distinct public repositories
> as well? It's confusing people and encouraging a practice that really
> isn't very feasible and practical in Git.

That's mainly historical. I haven't bothered to check it recently, but /pub/scm/git was not writable by me on kernel.org machine, only /pub/scm/git/git.git/ was.

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  1. Peter BaumannApr 7, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2006
  3. How to create independent branchesPeter Baumann, Apr 8, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiApr 8, 2006
  5. Peter BaumannApr 9, 2006
  6. Peter BaumannApr 9, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisApr 8, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinApr 8, 2006

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