Re: how to combine two clones in a collection

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

tisdag 10 juli 2007 skrev Brian Gernhardt:
> 
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Kalle Pokki wrote:
> 
> > You can also just create two different git repositories and start  
> > making
> > the commits in the master (or any other) branch. Then combine the
> > repositories by fetching
> >
> >         cd repo1
> >         git fetch ../repo2 master:repo2
> >
> > This way the branches don't share anything, do they?
> 
> Yes, that's what I was referring to at the end when I wrote:
> 
> > You could also create the branch in a second repository and pull it  
> > from there into the first (probably simpler),
> 
> But it seemed too simple.  ;-)  And that is exactly how I'd do it...   
> Assuming I thought of it before using write-tree, commit-tree, and  
> update-ref.  (Which is what happened.  I thought of the complicated  
> method and wrote it up before thinking "duh, just use a second repo.")

And the simplest way to create an new indpendent branch:

echo ref: refs/heads/newbranch >.git/HEAD
Then prepare the content and commit like you used to do.

-- robin