Re: Git policy (Was: debian-watch-file-in-native-package)
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:06:48PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
>> (At other people: since I've been using git for a while, I might have
>> some tips to ease development with it. Please tell me if you're
>> interested in a policy paragraph for it :))
>
> This would be *really* interesting.
Great!
> PLease do so if you would be able to spend some time on it.
I'm starting on it now, but remember I only have internet access on
weekends, so don't expect messages from me during the week (unless I'm home,
that is).
> I know that pkg-games team has a quite usual description in the wiki (as
> well as others most probably, but I once followed this description
> successfully).
Well, I'm using git for all my personal packages, and I even retired some
packages from team-maintainance because they used SVN (see: wicd from PAPT).
I find that git is far more flexible than SVN, especially regarding branches
:) (extra useful if you have to maintain backports, uploads to p-u,
experimental, [..])
I also have a set of "helper scripts", which let me build each package for:
karmic, jaunty, lenny, squeeze, sid :) (ok, Ubuntu distros might not be of
interest for the team, but are when upstream asks you ;))
I will shortly post a patch to policy.xml for review. I will only write how
to use git for uploads to sid -- and I will post some of my helper scripts
in the thread to see whether they're worth including in the policy.
Kindly,
David
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