Re: a poll for Dgit workflows

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: a poll for Dgit workflows"):
> I like the general idea of dgit, but I will never use it as long as it 
> requires committing patched trees.

Obviously, for dgit to be useful, it has to define a standard
interchange format.  That format has to be patches-applied because
otherwise naive users can't work with the source code properly.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that a maintainer who likes to work
with patches-unapplied trees has to change their workflow to use dgit.

I have a work-in-progress dgit branch which will convert,
automatically, a patches-unapplied branch, to a patches-applied
branch, during dgit push.  The maintainer never has to look at the
patches-applied branch, but it appears on the dgit git server for
other dgit users to see.

Ian.