Re: Migrating debian policy into a git repository

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>     git clone ssh://rra@git.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git
>     cd policy
>     git checkout -b bug12345-rra

and "git checkout -b bug12345-rra master" if you're not in master
already.

>     # edit files
>     # git add files
>     git commit
>     git push origin bug12345-rra # is this right?

Yes.

>     # iterate until good
>     git checkout -b master

No "-b". The branch master already exists.

>     git merge --squash bug12345-rra
>     git commit
>     git push origin master

Yes.

>     git branch -d bug12345-rra # how do I do this on the shared repo?

git push origin :bug12345-rra

(cf man git-push for details, you push an empty ref over an existing
remote ref)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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