Re: GIT and the current -stable

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Rene Herman (rene.herman@gmail.com) wrote:
> Stumbling around with git here. I'd like to use git to efficiently track 
> the current -stable as well as -current. Say, my local tree is a clone of 
> Linus current:
> 
> git clone \ 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git local
> 
> I then branch off a 2.6.20 branch:
> 
> cd local
> git checkout -b v2.6.20 v2.6.20
> 
> to now update to the current -stable I could do:
> 
> git pull \ 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git

I've already put a tree like this up on kernel.org.  The master branch
is Linus' tree, and there's branches for each of the stable releases
called linux-2.6.[12-20].y (I didn't add 2.6.11.y).

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6-stable.git;a=summary

> each time that a new -stable is released. Rather though, I'd like a simple 
> "git pull" to do this while on this branch while a "git pull" while back on 
> the master branch pulls from the originally cloned Linus repo again.

You have to be careful with pull.  It will always want to merge onto your
current branch.

thanks,
-chris