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.

Attached are what I use. It's not pretty but it's works for me; YMMV.