Re: how to track multiple upstreams in one repository

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jan 19, 2009, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0901192044060.6108@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901191308030.2428@asgard.lang.hm>

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:

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> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Julian Phillips wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, 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.
>>
>>  You could always just use
>>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6-stable.git
>>  ? It already contains both the linus tree and all the stable trees ...
>
> I know it contains the releases, but does it contain the -rc trees?

It seems to contain everything from the main Linus tree as far as I can see from the gitweb (haven't actually used it for kernel work).

>
> David Lang
>
>

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Julian

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