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On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 15:58 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:56:22AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> >> Which begs the question of what master is for.  So far, it's just been
> >> a mirror of next from what I can tell.  Maybe it should just track
> >> Linus' tree?
> >
> >I've been wondering myself what to do with it ... I may just leave it to
> >track linus indeed. Or maybe just delete it.
>=20
> I don't think you can delete it without hosing people who try to clone it=
.

The branch to check out by git clone can be overridden via a special
file in the .git directory in the shared repository. Unfortunately
though, I don't remember what it's called...


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