Russ Allbery wrote: > Having the repository on alioth doesn't necessarily help if you're talking > about something like Subversion (and particularly CVS) depending on the > use case. I don't think we really get back the functionality of quilt > until we're shipping the repository with the source package. Having > access to a read-only Subversion repository doesn't really help with > merging local patches into new upstream releases, for example Having a svn repo makes it fairly easy to update to a new upstream version. See svn-upgrade(1). (At least I assume svn-upgrade works about as well as my own svn-uupdate script that I've used for a thousand or so such updates, and which works about equally well as git-import-orig based on the 10 or so times I've used that so far.) -- see shy jo
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