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For the sake of example I'll show how to merge merge b2_8_fe into b_2_8_fe_sgi. These are two different repositories.

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git clone ssh://ashehata@git.hpdd.intelwhamcloud.com:29418/fs/lustre-release-fe-sgi
git checkout b2_8_fe_sgi # checkout the remote SGI branch

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git remote add 2.8-fe ssh://ashehata@git.hpdd.intelwhamcloud.com:29418/fs/lustre-release-fe
git pull 2.8-fe

"2.8-fe" is the name you give the remote repository.

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git merge 2.8-fe/b2_8_fe

At this point point b2_8_fe_sgi has been fast forwarded to to b2_8_fe.

To list remote branches

git branch -rrv

To list current repositories being tracked in your local directory

git remote

To create a copy of a branch into another repo

git checkout repo1/branch1
git push repo2 HEAD:branch1

To delete remote branch

git push repoX :branch_to_delete

Also when pushing to create remote branch, the HEAD in the command above you can just be replaced with a commit hash, if you don't feel like checking out the branch.
Same works with merging, if you don't want to merge whole branch, but only up to a certain point, you can use commit hash id instead of whole branch path.
Rebases Rebase also work works against remote branches in the ways you would expect.

Git procedure to rebase and update a remote branch

git clone ssh://ashehata@review.hpdd.intelwhamcloud.com:29418/fs/lustre-release
git checkout multi-rail
git fetch origin master
git merge origin/master
git push origin multi-rail

# to grab only a few patches
git checkout multi-rail
git checkout <SHA>
git push origin HEAD:multi-rail

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