On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 01:22:46PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > > The two sets of data are disjoint. > > Your initial mail made it sound like two packages have data in common. > Since they actually have no data in common, I'm not sure why forking > is needed. > > If you are wondering about forking the debian/ dir, just copy it to a > new git empty repository, delete and recreate debian/changelog, done. > Because much of the packaging files are the same or similar. The copyright is almost the same, the watch file is almost the same. The control file is almost the same. the rules file is the same. I did not want to reinvent these wheels. I wanted to be able to track the history of everything. I was originally asking because of the "clone --local" I was not actually using additional space on the server for the large data files because of links and software smoke and mirrors? -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117
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