Re: dgit and upstream git repos
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I hope you understand the rest of my mail, in which I said or implied:
> 1. Even if upstream disagrees, it should be obviously why dgit needs
> the dgit git history to have identical contents to the Debian
> packages.
> 2. This dgit requirement is not difficult to work with (in part
> because git makes it easy to do stunts).
> 3. In particular the dgit git history can still have the upstream git
> history as an ancestor, take cherry picks and even merges from
> upstream git, etc.
Oh, yes, absolutely. I even said basically the same thing in my earlier
reply, pointing to gbp import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag, which creates
exactly that structure.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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