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→What is the difference between a branch and a repository?
===What is the difference between a branch and a repository?===
===What is the difference between a branch and a repository?===
When you make a clone of a project on gitorious, it creates a "repository". You can see the list of repositories associated with a project by clicking on the Repository Tab. Branches are clones within a repository (created with git branch and accessed through git checkout). Git merge commands refer to branches, not repositories, so in order to merge a repository back into mainline, you need to pull (fetch followed by merge) it as if it were a patch.
When you make a clone of a project on github, it creates a "repository". You can see the list of repositories associated with a project by clicking on the Repository Tab. Branches are clones within a repository (created with git branch and accessed through git checkout). Git merge commands refer to branches, not repositories, so in order to merge a repository back into mainline, you need to pull (fetch followed by merge) it as if it were a patch.
git merge [your repository name] # This won't work
git merge [your repository name] # This won't work