Re: xsfbs in the git world

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just pulled xsfbs in the xbase-clients repo, like this:
> * echo ../../../../xsfbs/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates
>   (in app/xbase-clients)
> * Copy the .git/remotes/origin file from the xsfbs repo to
>   .git/remotes/xsfbs in xbase-clients, replacing origin with xsfbs-origin.
> * Add a branch xsfbs-unstable, and checkout xbase-clients'
>   debian-unstable.

Another thing, there's no need to make the xsfbs-unstable anything more
than a local branch, so don't bother pushing it to alioth. I'm not sure if
you'd planned to do so, but just in case :-)

> * git-pull . xsfbs-unstable
> Which adds the three files from xsfbs into the repo, (hopefully) using
> the objects from the xsfbs repo.
> 
> Is that how it should be done?

 - David Nusinow