Re: xsfbs in the git world
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.
> * 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?
I didn't know about the alternates system before, although to be honest I'm
not entirely sure why we should use it in this case. Is there an advantage
to using it?
Aside from that, everything else looks good me.
- David Nusinow
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