[dcmf] Re: Re-syncing with snapshots

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Joseph Ratterman wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Basically, you are updating the repository from which you cloned.  You'll 
> do steps 1 & 2 from the wiki: 
> http://dcmf.anl-external.org/wiki/index.php/Downloads
> Download the tarball
> Untar it to a temporary location.
> cd /tmp && tar -zxf ~/Bgp.comm.git.tgz
> Then, in your working repository, change ".git/config" to point to the new 
> directory.
> After that, run "git pull origin public".  That will merge the latest 
> changes from the distributed repo into your current work.
> 

Thanks. this worked out just fine.  Only gotcha is that the process
gets grumpy if you have changed any files and not committed the
changes (for example, I updated BGP_ARCH_PATH in Make.rules, but
didn't want to commit that instance-specific change)

> I'll update the wiki to reflect this idea.  Let me know if that very brief 
> description was too brief.

I appreciate the git guidance.  
==rob

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Rob Latham
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