Re: GIT and the current -stable

Junio C Hamano
2007-04-14T06:24:22Z

Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

I think adding these lines to .git/config would do the trick,
after you have done the "checkout -b v2.6.20 v2.6.20" step:

[branch "v2.6.20"]
remote = stable
merge = refs/heads/master
[remote "stable"]
url = git://git.kernel.org/.../stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git
fetch = refs/heads/master

provided if stable team forks v2.6.20.y history off of Linus's
v2.6.20.

With the above configuration, anytime you say "git pull" while
on your v2.6.20 branch will fetch from "stable" and merge their
'master' branch in your current branch (i.e. v2.6.20 branch).