On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ry...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> Can anyone explain, succinctly, what's going on? > > Yes, please. I'm totally confused. > > I know how to use git in a manner similar to the way I used to use svn. > > For some context: I was hoping that gits fanciness would allow me to > have some kind of intermediary between the public repository and my > various machines. That is, I imagine something where I can let my > laptop and my machine at home talk to my machine at work so that > changes I make can be visible in all three places without having to > make them public to the whole world.
I currently do this. The way I do this is the following: 1) Create a clone of the PLT tree in my usr. For example, ssh git.racket-lang.org fork plt usr/sstrickl/plt 2) Use that as the origin for clones on my machines. On each machine, I do: git clone git.racket-lang.org:usr/sstrickl/plt 3) Add a remote for the official PLT repo for convenience in each such repo. git remote add git-plt git.racket-lang.org:plt 4) When I need to pull in changes made by others on the main repo, I do: git fetch git-plt git merge git-plt/master git push which takes the new changes from the main git repo and applies them to my copy. 5) When I finally am ready to push my commits to the main repo, I just do: git push git-plt master (Notice I'm ignoring rebasing here. That makes it more complicated, but for the kinds of uses people are doing now, where they're just merging/pushing, you can use the above workflow to keep your own private repo in your usr space and coordinate between your own machines.) Stevie_________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
