Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:21:47 -0500

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Greg KH <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
>> don't have this issue at all?
> 
> "clone -l -s" has been there for quote a long time (since mid Aug
> 2005).  Because -s implies -l since end of November 2005, you
> should be able to say
> 
> 	git clone --bare -s ..../torvalds/linux-2.6.git stable-queue.git

Yes but what about existing trees?

Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as 
if you had done a clone -s ?

	Jeff