"template repositories"?

[Will Maier]

Hi Jorge-

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:14:22AM -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> I have been wondering if it's possible to have a repository to track
> the boilerplate evolution and then be able to clone it to branch of a
> project from it. What puzzles me is that I don't want the boilerplates
> history in all my projects so I was wondering if I could just clone
> the previous repo and just leaving the mark of the revision where it
> branched off.
> 
> Or perhaps I should keep the revisions in place so I can pull from the
> boilerplate repo any bug fixes?

I do this, simply cloning the base repository and, later on, merging
back and forth as necessary. I find it useful to have the template
history in the new project (especially since it makes later merges
easier).

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