linux-kernel - GIT and the current -stable

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Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:36:02 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: GIT and the current -stable

Good day.

Stumbling around with git here. I'd like to use git to efficiently track the 
  current -stable as well as -current. Say, my local tree is a clone of 
Linus current:

git clone \ 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git local

I then branch off a 2.6.20 branch:

cd local
git checkout -b v2.6.20 v2.6.20

to now update to the current -stable I could do:

git pull \ 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git

each time that a new -stable is released. Rather though, I'd like a simple 
"git pull" to do this while on this branch while a "git pull" while back on 
the master branch pulls from the originally cloned Linus repo again.

Is this possible? Do I want it to be? Comments like "work like this instead" 
welcome as well; figuring out what the heck it is that I want from git seems 
to be one of the most difficult questions to answer...

Currently using git 1.5.0.4.

Rene.

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