On 11/12/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Nov 11, 2007, at 10:20 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/11/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> >>>>> jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git remote show linus
> >>>>> * remote linus
> >>>>>   URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/
> >>>>> linux-2.6.git
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How do I push the definition of the linus remote repo?
> >>>>
> >>>> You can't. Remotes are local to a repository. They cannot be
> >>>> "pushed" nor will they be "cloned" or "fetched".
> >>>
> >>> Dreamhost is way slow compared to kernel.org, so it is better to
> >>> clone
> >>> from kernel.org first and then pull from dreamhost. What is the
> >>> right
> >>> sequence of commands so that a new user will end up with a kernel
> >>> they
> >>> can use 'git pull' on to get updates from dreamhost? I'll add
> >>> these to
> >>> the repo description page.
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying this locally and I can't figure out the right sequence of
> >>> git command to redirect origin from kernel.org to dreamhost.
> >>
> >> How about the following (untested sequence)
> >>
> >>         mkdir linux-2.6
> >>         cd linux-2.6
> >>         git init
> >>         git remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/
> >> kernel/git/
> >> torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> >>         git remote add origin ssh://jonsmirl1@git.digispeaker.com/~/
> >> mpc5200b.git
> >>         git fetch linus
> >>         git fetch origin
> >>         git checkout -b master origin/master
> >>
> >> The general idea should be correct. You have a non-standard
> >> setup, so avoid git-clone.
> >
> > What should I do to standardize the setup so that 'clone/pull' will
> > work on it?
>
> Pull should work after you checked out origin/master. Pull should
> fetch from origin and merge to local master.
>
> But I don't see a way how you could use clone for your setup.
>
>
> > I created a master branch. I gave up on fighting with
> > gitweb and no branch named master.
>
> I don't understand your comment about gitweb.

At http://git.digispeaker.com/
The short log, log, tree links won't work unless master exists.
Once master is there, everything works.


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>
> > I'd like to do this, but I can't figure out how.
> >
> > git clone linus
> > move origin to digispeaker
> > git pull
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a simple way to redirect the origin.
>
> I don't know a simple way.
>
>         Steffen
>
>
>


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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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