Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 08/17/2014 03:52 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> - the above layout is for the traditional case of non-native packages,
>>>   what would be the layout for native packages? how can be differentiate
>>>   between native/non-native layout?
>>
>> Please don't.  It would be Really Troublesome should a package need to
>> switch from native to non-native, or the opposite.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Until we have defined what the layout is for a native package, you can't
> assume this. It's possibly a subset of the conventions for non-native
> packages + some common conventions in all software projects.
> 
> Something like:
> - branches
>   - master: main development branch

Please don't use "master". It's meaningless. It just happens to be the
default in Git, but that's about it.

Thomas