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Re: Need to reach a decision on how to handle the git repository



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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