Re: [martinerikwerner@gmail.com: debdir git branch for lightweight debian/-only contributions]
2014-08-12 16:58 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> Hi,
>
> I just learned something from Debian Games team. Any volunteer to test
> this and to add a hint to our team policy?
It's good to know this exists, altough I haven't faced yet clone size
issues myself.
+Emilien
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com> -----
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:25:24 +0200
> From: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
> To: Debian Games Team <debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: debdir git branch for lightweight debian/-only contributions
>
> Hi all.
>
> I've been experimenting a bit with git-subtree (from git/contrib/, now
> installed by default as part of Git in Debian Jessie, yay!) in order to
> allow for minimal clones of and contributions to the debian/ content.
>
> This might potentially be useful to remove the barrier for quick
> packaging contributions to large packages. Take redeclipse-data for
> example, where a full git clone is around 0.8G, and this method allows
> for cloning (and pushing back up) the debian/ part in 300K.
>
> What do you think? Is it something that can be worthwhile? Is there many
> that feel clone size is an issue? Would this help?
>
> In any case it was an interesting experiment that I though I might
> share, I have set up a debdir branch using this method in the
> redeclipse-data git://git.debian.org/pkg-games/redeclipse-data.git
> repository, if anyone wants to have a look.
>
>
> == Setup ==
> (Assuming "master" has debian/ and upstream content combined)
> The debdir branch is created and published simply using
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git subtree split -P debian -b debdir
> $ git push origin debdir
>
>
> == Contributing to debdir ==
> To clone only the debdir branch, use
>
> $ git clone --single-branch --branch debdir $url
>
> Then make commits as usual, and the just push back to the debdir branch.
>
> Note that the contributions can be done without git-subtree.
>
>
> == Merge debdir ==
> If a combined master is desired as the end result, someone with a full
> clone will need to merge the new commits in debdir back into master,
> like so
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git subtree merge -P debian debdir
>
>
> == Update debdir ==
> If commits are made to the debian/ content in the combined master
> branch, these needs to be re-split out into the debdir branch in order
> to keep it updated, like so
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git subtree push -P debian . debdir
> $ git push origin debdir
>
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> Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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