From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple checkout copies Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:55:17 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <867fvy4nca.fsf@dod.no> References: <874mr32adn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423004153 23783 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2015 22:55:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:55:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 03 23:55:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNq-0005i0-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:55:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNq-0004Iu-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNO-0004If-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNJ-0000XT-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNI-0000XL-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YImNE-0005Nk-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:55:12 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:55:12 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:55:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:35w3icJOJqgrYQApklmP4IPS/9w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182350 Archived-At: >>>>> David Kastrup : > Sigh. The second method (creating a clone of the repo) will make this > clone have the original repository as its upstream, not the remote > one. So the second approach will _only_ let you share stuff by going > through the first repository. Right, I've never used it myself. I just do "cp -a". How about this, then (also untested): git clone emacs emacs-24 cd emacs-24 git remote set-url origin git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git git checkout emacs-24 (personally I'll stay with the "cp -a"...)