On 04/04/2014 10:11 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Herb Falk <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> No, I just wanted to understand.  It will be a couple of hours work.  Tried 
>>> to GIT clone and to add in my changes, but it didn't go well.
>>
>>
>> If you only want to keep your own private repository, with a modified 
>> version of Wireshark that tracks the trunk (and with you being responsible 
>> for dealing with merge conflicts), I'm not sure what the right way to do 
>> that is in Git.
> 
> Keep a clone, and do your own work in a branch off master. When you
> want to update the underlying base, fetch from the master repository
> and rebase your branch on top of the latest master.
> 

This.

Would this be regarded a basic git knowledge, or a way specifically suited for
our repository setup? Then it would be a valuable addition to the Wiki.

Thanks,
Jaap


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