Re: Tools

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Krzysztof Krzyżaniak <eloy@kofeina.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Just adding a perspective, not trying to convince you particularly:

>> I still find it really important to be able to separate out individual
>> changes to feed upstream when working with a CPAN package.  With quilt,
>> I can do that.  With git, I can do that, but the team isn't using git
>> and doesn't have a git respository (and has a bunch of tools that need
>> to know about the repository).  With Subversion, I can't do that, so
>> just making the modifications directly in Subversion looks really
>> unappealing.  It adds to the upstream coordination work and makes it
>> harder to cope with new versions for me.

> svk, you can use it parallel with subversion upstream repo.

svk gets part of the way there, it's true.  It's kind of slow, but we
could use that with Subversion and use svk-maintained branches to store
each individual patch we want to feed upstream.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>