Re: How to handle Debian patches
On Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:25 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> Create a submission branch. There are two audiences for your work;
>> one is downstream (which includes the integration branch for Debian),
>> the other is upstream, one audience does not like rebases, the other
>> thrives on it. See
>> http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4> for
>> http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4> details
>> http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4> on
>> http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4> this
>> http://www.golden-gryphon.com/software/misc/packaging.html#sec-5.4> scheme.
> Oh, huh. Both rebase *and* merge. I didn't even think of that.
> That would work, although it does... well, not double, but at least
> increase the work for any branch that also has a submission branch,
> since any upstream merge conflicts have to be resolved on both
> branches. Or is there some way to reuse the resolution work done with
> one of those branches when rebasing/merging the other?
You can mostly automate this, with proper naming. (I suppose I
should blog about this). See, my topic branches are called topic--foo,
and there is a corresponding submission--foo branch.
Whenever you commit to the topic--foo branch, arrange to cherry
pick that commit to the submission--foo branch.
When you merge upstream into topic--foo branch, you also rebase
submission--foo branch. Sure, you might at times have to resolve the
same changes in both branches, but doing it one after the other, you
can just copy the affected files into the stash, or something, and just
pull them out after -- so one set of cp/cp back per file, and this is
also not a major amount of work.
I still need to write more general scaffold scripts, but this is
working out rather well.
manoj
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