Re: svn management, git, etc

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:36 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:14:33PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 15:40 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > 
> > > If the eventual goal is to get all the patches merged upstream -- and I
> > > really hope it is -- then tracking git makes this infinitely easier, and
> > > infinitely more appealing from both sides to do so.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > It should simplify maintenance in general, e.g. we could just have
> > copies of the upstream repos with branches for the Debian packaging.
> 
> If I understand correctly, we'd initially clone the upstream repo and keep
> pulling that repo. Then we have separate debian (maybe deb_unstable,
> deb_experimental, etc) branches for our own work. To update to a new
> version from those branches, we update our cloned master branch, checkout
> the debian branch of interest, and pull the changes and we magically have
> the new upstream version. Is this correct?

Basically, yes. :)


BTW, I'm afraid calling me a git 'guru' is giving me way too much credit
though. I think I'm becoming a relatively experienced git user, but I
have very little experience with administration of a shared repository.
We'd probably need an actual guru like Keith Packard for that, at least
initially until we've accumulated the necessary know how.


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