Re: Converting to dgit

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Nikolaus,
>
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:22:54PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> I'll have to bring this up one more time. I just read
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794244, and that
>> sounds (in "USING GIT-DPM WITH DGIT FOR THE FIRST TIME") as if I should
>> also stitch the existing dgit history into my git repository.
>> 
>> Is that information outdated, or should I still do that?
>
> I've never used git-dpm(1), but I would guess that information is out of
> date because it was written before the --quilt=dpm option was added to
> dgit.
>
> You mentioned previously that you're trying to use the
> dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow.  In that case, why do you want git-dpm?

I don't. I was just trying to get a better overall
understanding. However, the part about stitching in existing dgit
history seemed relevant even when not using git-dpm - did I misunderstand?


Best,
-Nikolaus
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