Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems
Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
> For example, if you get a merge conflict when rebasing, the above
> incantation will list two commits: the original debian commit and the
> merge commit. git-debcherry, on the other hand, will synthesize one
> patch, consisting of the original Debian commit, but modified to include
> the *relevant parts* of the merge commit.
Okay, yes, that sounds pretty awesome. That may entirely remove my
concerns about keeping the patches always rebased.
Well, if we had one more thing: a patches.debian.org service that would
show the git-debcherry-extracted patches against upstream. I really like
being able to just point upstream at all the patches relevant to them that
Debian has applied.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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