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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GIT and the current -stable
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:36:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46206842.80203@gmail.com> (raw)

Good day.

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

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.

Is this possible? Do I want it to be? Comments like "work like this instead" 
welcome as well; figuring out what the heck it is that I want from git seems 
to be one of the most difficult questions to answer...

Currently using git 1.5.0.4.

Rene.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-14  5:36 Rene Herman [this message]
2007-04-14  6:24 ` GIT and the current -stable Junio C Hamano
2007-04-14  7:13   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-14  7:21   ` Greg KH
2007-04-14 17:34   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-14 18:45     ` Gerb Stralko
2007-04-14  8:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14  8:54   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-14 23:13     ` Rene Herman
2007-04-15  0:23       ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-14 15:15   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-14 17:19     ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14 17:23       ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-14 17:31         ` Chris Wright
2007-04-14 19:07       ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-14 11:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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