rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos $ git clone ssh://pierce.jason@repo.or.cz/srv/git/Archlinux-Stable.git Repo.or
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/home/rxkaffee/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1135, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (751/751), done.
Indexing 1135 objects...
remote: Total 1135 (delta 268), reused 1135 (delta 268)
 100% (1135/1135) done
Resolving 268 deltas...
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rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos $ cd Repo.or/
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ ls
PKGBUILD.proto  README.DEV  base  devel  install.proto  lib  support
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git checkout tool
error: pathspec 'tool' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git branch -b mytool origin/tool
usage: git-branch [-r] (-d | -D) <branchname> | [--track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] | (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> | [--color | --no-color] [-r | -a] [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]]
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git checkout -b mytool origin/tool
Branch mytool set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/tool.
Switched to a new branch "mytool"
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ ls
abs       dpkgsrc     newpage.php  pkgvers.php  repo-add     sub_engine.php
abs.conf  dsourcepkg  newpage.sh   pullall.sh   repo-remove  sync-repos.sh
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ echo test>testfile.txt
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git add testfile.txt 
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git commit -m "merger test on testfile: from mytool to tool"
Created commit 60db7c6: merger test on testfile: from mytool to tool
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 testfile.txt
rxkaffee@slagmuffin ~/arch-stable/repos/Repo.or $ git push ssh://pierce.jason@repo.or.cz/srv/git/Archlinux-Stable.git mytool:tool
updating 'refs/heads/tool' using 'refs/heads/mytool'
  from e788a1e1d6fe1a91d8967be87227442ca43e3f70
  to   60db7c68880712150fc8b8884330de7d062ada71
Generating pack...
Done counting 4 objects.
Result has 3 objects.
Deltifying 3 objects...
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Writing 3 objects...
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Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)