freenet$ mkdir fred
freenet$ cd fred/
freenet/fred$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sdiz/build/freenet/fred/.git/

freenet/fred$ <edit file=".git/config">
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
[remote "official"]
    url = git://github.com/freenet/fred-official.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/official/*
[remote "staging"]
    url = git@github.com:freenet/fred-staging.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/*
    push = refs/heads/staging:refs/heads/master
[user]
    name = Daniel Cheng (鄭郁邦) <freenet@freenetproject.org>
    email = freenet@freenetproject.org
[branch "stable"]
    remote = official
    merge = refs/heads/master
    rebase = true
[branch "staging"]
    remote = staging
    merge = refs/heads/master
    rebase = true
</edit>


freenet/fred$ git fetch official ; git fetch staging

[.......]
freenet/fred$ git  branch stable official/master
freenet/fred$ git  branch staging staging/master

freenet/fred$ git checkout -f staging
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of staging.
Switched to branch "staging"
freenet/fred$ ls
AUTHORS  build_binary.xml  build.xml  devnotes  LICENSE.Freenet  LICENSE.Mantissa  README  src  test

freenet/fred$ # List the changes from stable to HEAD
freenet/fred$ git log stable..
commit b043b9ca080d7c454e34eb5fb9dc506c514d6798
Author: Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 25 14:36:27 2009 +0200

    Test commit

freenet/fred$ # .... and with diffs
freenet/fred$ git log -p stable..
commit b043b9ca080d7c454e34eb5fb9dc506c514d6798
Author: Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 25 14:36:27 2009 +0200

    Test commit

diff --git a/README b/README
index ab7659e..981020e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -101,3 +101,4 @@ other code:
 - Mantissa is under the modified BSD license. See README.Mantissa. According
   to the FSF, modified BSD is compatible with GPL; we must include both
   licenses.
+
freenet/fred$  <edit something locally>

freenet/fred$ git commit -av


freenet/fred$ git push staging
Counting objects: 21, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
Writing objects: 100% (13/13), 1.60 KiB, done.
Total 13 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git@github.com:freenet/fred-staging.git
   b043b9c..63c006d  master -> master

freenet/fred$