This script shows how to import in git the complete history of a Debian package. It creates a structure of a properly merged upstream tree and Debian changes. http://www.linux.it/~md/software/import-inn2.sh It may not be pretty and is slightly DWIM, but it worked for all of my packages (some of them with very broken stuff in old releases and a mix of 1.0, 1.0+DBS, 1.0+quilt and 3.0) while everything else that I tried has failed. For a good example pull my inn2 tree and have a look at it in gitk: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/inn2/ . Even if the first releases used DBS, so it was not practical to import the corresponding upstream sources, all Debian changes have been imported and can be easily browsed. Another interesting example is kmod, where I have the complete history of the real upstream git tree as an upstream branch which keeps being merged in the Debian branch at every upstream release: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/kmod/ . In this case I used the same script, but I made it use the upstream git tree instead of importing the .orig.tar.gz files. -- ciao, Marco
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