Re: Upstream source merge only when building Debian source (was: Bits from the Debian PyCon Hangout)
Hi Paul (2015.04.15_16:53:04_+0200)
> > See ‘git-buildpackage(1)’, the ‘--git-overlay’ option.
> >
> > Is that still a wholly compatible workflow with what is being proposed?
>
> I have this workflow as well, and this would even work really well with
> our current svn repos, but folks in the room at DebConf and at our
> hangout today disagreed it was good. The universal disbelief about this
> approach leads me to think I'm in the minority and have kinda just went
> along with the flow.
I'm in your corner, on this. Maintaining /debian/ in git separately, is
conceptually cleaner (and friendlier to the small laptop SSD).
But I've given this up as an un-winnable battle.
The tools for this workflow aren't as good as full source, and full
source is actually kind of nice to work on.
SR
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