Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Updating the packages on RC-unrelated issues

[Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Rafael Laboissiere
<rafael@laboissiere.net> wrote:
> Ok, I just fixed Bug#681065 and, in the process, created the experimental
> branch in the Git repository for the octave package.
>
> Using "gbp-clone --all" will create a local branch "experimental" which
> is set up to track "origin/experimental".

I didn't know about --all, very useful!

> Otherwise, after git pull, I
> guess that the following commands will be enough:
>
>     git branch experimental origin/experimental
>     git checkout experimental

Or "git checkout -b experimental origin/experimental".

I've had to go "experimental" in one of my other packages, I checked
in a debian/gbp.conf on the experimental branch like so:

[DEFAULT]
pristine-tar = True
debian-branch = experimental

to avoid needing to do "--git-debian-branch=experimental" on every
git-buildpackage.  Of course I'll have to remember to change it back
or delete it when merging back into master.

-- 
mike