On Thursday 05 June 2008 7:29:49 am Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/6/5 Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@gmx.de>: > > Miriam Ruiz schrieb: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> We can not be endlessly discussing this. We can do 3 things: > >> 1) Store only the debian/ directory in git, using quilt as patching > >> system the same way we use SNV > >> 2) Store the whole source there, using pristine-tar, and use git at > >> its full power > >> 3) Allow both layouts depending on the package > > > > I would prefer the second solution but not drop quilt as a result. > > Having some things separated as patches is in my opinion still an good > > idea. > > Quilt would still be used with the packages in SVN, of course. > > Regarding the packages in git, I don't see any benefits in having the > whole source code in git and still be using quilt. The idea, from what > I've seen in other teams, would be to be able to implement different > functionalities in different branches, and merge all the ones you want > in the final result. That is something that can not be easily achieved > with quilt, if it can be at all, and thus restricting git to using > quilt and having all the changes in debian/ would lead us to the 1st > option. > > Miry The idea with still using quilt was to have patches available for anyone to review, adopt, etc. I suppose in git, anyone could take advantage of git-format-patch for this case. I would stick with using quilt for now, and generate the patches as described in http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS. -- Regards, Andres
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