Re: Working with forks

On 07/09/2023 20:03, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:49 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With a clone of e.g. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src.git (in the FreeBSD project) as a starting point: when the times come to work, locally, with other people's forks, does Git (at the command line) allow an easy way to temporarily use the same local directory?
> I do this all the time, if I understand the question correctly.  You
> just need to add a separate git remote for each fork.  For example,
> this sequence of commands will clone the FreeBSD source.  Then it will
> fetch grahamperrin's fork.  Then it will checkout a copy of
> grahamperrin's feature branch.  Finally, it will rebase that feature
> branch onto a branch from the original FreeBSD repo.
>
> git clone git@github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src.git
> cd freebsd-src
> git remote add grahamperrin git@github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-src.git
> git fetch grahamperrin
> git branch grahamperrin/featureX featureX
> git checkout featureX
> git rebase origin/stable/13

Thanks.

Below (an abbreviated list of branches), what am I doing wrong?

% git -C /usr/src config --get remote.origin.url
https://github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-src.git
% git -C /usr/src remote add jlduran 
https://github.com/jlduran/freebsd-src.git
% git -C /usr/src fetch jlduran
 From https://github.com/jlduran/freebsd-src
  * [new branch] D37210                                  -> jlduran/D37210
…
  * [new branch] nanobsd-embedded-use-makefs             -> 
jlduran/nanobsd-embedded-use-makefs
…
  * [new branch] wip-fix-comment-blah                    -> 
jlduran/wip-fix-comment-blah
% git -C /usr/src branch jlduran/nanobsd-embedded-use-makefs 
nanobsd-embedded-use-makefs
fatal: not a valid object name: 'nanobsd-embedded-use-makefs'
%

If it's relevant: my /usr/src originated from my fork.