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Re: [gpsd-dev] Upcoming migration to GitLab


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] Upcoming migration to GitLab
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 01:55:43 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> Did you do something to make Fork and Clone appear?

Enrolling you as a dev probly did it.

> > > Oh, it's *certainly* not necessary to resort to format-patch and am in any
> > > case.  One can always copy commits from one repo to another via fetch and
> > > push, with a rebase in between if needed.  No need to resort to 
> > > error-prone
> > > and lossy patch files.
> > 
> > One can always...if one has CLI access to the host on the fetch end.  Here
> > we don't, we have to work via the GitLab web interfaces and pushes.  But as
> > I said, I'm not worried.  I've done this sort pf thing before; ve haff vays.
> 
> Huh?  You only need CLI access to *your own computer* (or perhaps some GUI
> tool that I've never used).  You can copy any branch of any readable repo to
> any branch of any writable repo with:
> 
>       git fetch source_repo source_branch:local_branch
>       git push dest_repo local_branch:dest_branch

Right, that's a variation on the push method I had in mind.  I should have 
realized
one can stage through a third repo.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>





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