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Re: Best VCS layout for our packages?



Hi,

Am Freitag, den 03.07.2015, 22:13 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:08:24 +0300
> Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Take a look in
> > 
> > 	/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/kaction-guest/bare
> > -united
> > 
> > What do you think? It was generated by attached script (takes 
> > several
> > hours and a lot of heat)
> 
> Looks good! Thanks for the work!
> Why is everything under a subdirectory named "p"? Does it serve any
> special purpose?

I suggested that:

>  5. Use "git filter-branch" to put everything into a subdirectory "p/".
>     I can imagine that we will later want to put non-package-things
>     into that repository as well (e.g. the package plan, or simply
>     tools required to work with the repository, or documentation)
>     and it is nice to have space for that. Note that
>    "dpkg-buildpackage" will spew out its result into that p/ directory.

And I would add this
$ cat p/.gitignore 
/*
!/.gitignore
!*/debian
so that git will never bother you about files in there.

Greetings,
Joachim

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