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add story of merging remotes
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git tag -am '' 'REL-1.0-alpha'
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== [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12921125/git-merge-branch-of-another-remote Git merge branch of another remote] ==
When using git between a local repository and a single 'origin' remote, it's a simple process to work locally and push things back up to origin. But, what if you have a separate remote repository... perhaps on GitHub, or a collaborator who has similar sources but not using your origin (so disconnected, and perhaps not even linked ancestrally like a fork). How do you add that other remote to your project and then pull in the code "they" have on top of yours? Here's an example of how we started with a repo from github and added a repo that we were developing privately. (The reality is that we were developing a repo privately; created a sibling version of the code at github; and then wanted to re-incorporate the changes of the github repo back into our private repo.)
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# start with one 'origin' remote
git clone https://github.com/freephile/qb.git
# add another remote that has similar code
git remote add private greg@eqt:/home/greg/src/ad.git
# check
git remote -v
# rename it for the host it came from
git remote rename private eqt
# pull our 'eqt' remote onto the master branch of the code we got from 'origin'
git pull eqt master
# But there are some unversioned files in the way (git complains)
# So, create a new 'dev' branch and stuff all the new things there (which we can either delete, or resume later)
git checkout -b dev
git add hosts package.json requirements.txt scripts/
git commit -m 'stashing some files into a dev branch'
git checkout master
# now we can merge again
git pull eqt master
# git complains about some merge conflicts (changes on both sides so it can't just do a fast-forward)
# edit those files to remove the conflict markers and get them the way you want them
git add install* launch.yml
# finish your merge by committing the result
git commit -m 'merged additional plays from eqt'
# and push upstream to 'origin'
git push
# and push to other remote 'eqt'
git push eqt
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