Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 29 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think the way forward for Git-maintained packages is the 3.0 (git)
>> format, but changed to ship a bundle. That way, relevant branches and
>> history can be included, and Git is fairly space-efficient so the
>> additional cost of doing so isn't that bad.
> As far as I can tell, git-bundle is not submodule friendly. I
> would appreciate 3.0 (git) supporting submodules; and I'd be willing to
> write code for that (once I am done relocating, that is)
I think a bundle corresponds to a module, roughly, yes? If so, then one
could presumably write some light infrastructure around multiple bundles
to recreate a source tree with submodules.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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