Re: a poll for Dgit workflows
On 20.03.2016 13:58, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Daniel Stender writes ("a poll for Dgit workflows"):
>> I've experimented with applying `gbp import-orig` on an extra
>> upstream branch and merging into e.g. dgit/sid, but this seems to be
>> substandard because `dgit quilt-fixup` wants to quiltify all the
>> changes in the working tree, which isn't wanted.
>
> FYI I am (still) working on support in dgit for pushing from a
> patches-unapplied git branch, which might be helpful.
>
> Another easy approach is to switch to a non-quilt source format. This
> will work if you don't need the other things that `3.0 (quilt)' does.
>
>> The next thing which would be interesting is how to rework patches
>> e.g. unfuzzing them (for rebase isn't possible on freshly cloned
>> repos with no previous Git history?).
>
> It's quite easy with git to rebase a series of commits onto another
> branch with disjoint hitory. (And if the other history has the right
> files in it, it will actually work.) See git-rebase(1), specifically
> --onto.
>
> Ian.
Ah yes, source format 1.0 fits better here. Thanks for the pointer and
comments (Manoj, too).
DS
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