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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: newbie question about git push
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:52:28 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Eric Bowman wrote:
> Where things get a weird is when I push a revision back to itchy from one of
> my other clones.  I feel like I must be missing some fundamental concept,
> and I'm wondering if someone can help.

This is a FAQ.
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73

> I'm starting to think that I should clone the repo I cloned from svn for
> doing development work on itchy, but this seems kind of wasteful.  Am I
> missing some fundamental concept?

I always clone my svn mirrors for doing development work.

It's not particularly wasteful, especially if you set up the svn
mirror as an alternate for your working repo. ("git clone -s", but
make sure you read "git help clone" so that you know why you can't
delete anything from the svn mirror)

Peter Harris