Re: GIT question - am I doing it correctly?

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Wed 29-12-10 17:23:02, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> 
> Everytime I git pull tyhe Linus' sources but before I build I apply
> Peter Zijlstra's fixes, Takashi Iwai's sources and Dave Miller's
> sources. The sequence is:
> 
> # the Linus' sources
> git pull
> 
> # external sources
> git remote add some_name git://some_URL.git
> 
> # update
> git remote update
> 
> Then configure and I build. I noticed that especially Peter's
> git-update very quickly, not as long as they did before.
> 
> Is my procedure correct? I am new to GIT.

What do you want to achieve? You want to build the tree that you have
added as a remote? If yes then you need to checkout a branch from that
remote

git checkout -b your_branch_name some_name/branch_you_want

then you will have a new your_branch_name which points to the tip of the
remote's branch and you can configure and make the tree.

Please note that 'git remote add && git remote update' will just add
commits from that remote tree and it doesn't affect your local copy
anyhow.

If you are new to GIT I would strongly encourage you to read through the
following ebook: http://progit.org/book/

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Piotr Hosowicz
> 
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