On Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:15:10 am Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I think the most important question here is: Will *anyone* be able to
> contribute to a git repository with any git repository layout? For the
> first layout, I don't think it's a huge problem. Basically the same
> workflow, a couple of commands to learn, done. For the second one, I
> still believe there's much to learn before being able to prepare an
> upload on ones own.
With the second layout, I didn't find that there was much more to learn than
with the first layout. In the second layout, there are only two things that I
found myself doing differently in git as opposed to in svn. One is reverting
changes done during build (i.e. autogenerated files from autotools), the
other is generating patches.
For reverting changes, it's as simple as `git-checkout .`
For generating patches, I found it easier to switch to a different branch and
work on the source files directly. Then I take advantage of git-diff or
git-format-patch to generate some patches to bring them over to the debian
packaging branch ("master" branch) for use during build using quilt.
Also, I have updated the wiki that explains how to do this.
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS
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Regards,
Andres
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