Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:52:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> I'm pleased to announce that dgit 0.7, which is a version of dgit
> suitable for alpha and beta testers, is available in unstable.
> 
> >From the manpage:
> 
>        dgit [dgit-opts] clone [dgit-opts] package [suite] [./dir|/dir]
>        dgit [dgit-opts] fetch|pull [dgit-opts] [suite]
>        dgit [dgit-opts] build|sbuild [build-opts]
>        dgit [dgit-opts] push [dgit-opts] [suite]
> 
>        dgit treats the Debian archive as a version control system, and
>        bidirectionally gateways between the archive and git.  The git
>        view of the package can contain the usual upstream git history,
>        and will be augmented by commits representing uploads done by
>        other developers not using dgit.  This git history is stored in
>        a canonical location known as dgit-repos which lives outside
>        the Debian archive (currently, on Alioth).

Thanks a lot for this development !

For the packages that I maintain with Git, I commit build logs (the local one
for the uploaded binary packages, plus the buildd ones) in separate branches.
In some cases I found it quite useful.  Have you considered integrating logs in
dgit ?  In a somehow similar goal (finding difference between builds), have you
also considered committing the contents of the unpacked binary packages in
other branches ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan