From: david@lang.hm
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:58:17 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track multiple upstreams in one repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901181957070.20741@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20090119021426.GA21999@shion.is.fushizen.net>

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Bryan Donlan wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:58:06PM -0800, 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.
>
> After cloning from one:
> git remote add remotename git://...
> git fetch remotename
>
> You will now have the other repository fetched into your local
> repository; tags from both will be replicated to your local tags.

thanks, given the nature of git I figured it was something really simple, 
but I just wasn't able to find it.

I've forwarded this to the kernel.org webmaster to update the 'how to 
follow linux development' page

David Lang