On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 13:18 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Am I making any sense? ;-) > > Kind of,
I'm glad you understand it, because I sure don't ;-) > but would would be even easier is if you just have one > "origin", pointing at linux-stable.git, and then every so often just do: > git checkout master > git pull > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Both my stable.git and my linus.git are bare repositories. No working directory, as that would add a lot of unnecessary files and waste disk space. You can't do a git checkout on a bare repository. > > As the master branch of linux-stable.git always is a "clean" linux.git > tree, although it might lag a few -rc releases back if I have forgotten > to update it recently. When it does get updated, all should be fine as > the master branch has no merges from anything else, so it's just a > fast-forward. I also need the latest linus tree all the time. Unless your stable tree has a branch from Linus's master, I will still need to directly get Linus's tree. > > That might be simpler overall than the different repos to be pulling > from in different ways. Unfortunately it wont work due to the requirement that the repos be bare. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
