Re: Switching to git

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

On 03/06/2011 10:13 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:56:59AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 01:33:45PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> Let me turn that around: why would you *not* want to use a Python based dVCS?
>>> <wink>
>> Because the language of a tool shouldn't usually matter at all?
>> Because git-buildpackage is widely used while mercurial-buildpackage is
>> not?
> 
> Well, it's not so widely used that 8 out of 10 git package repos I've
> encountered don't fail miserably to do anything sensible with the default
> git-buildpackage options.  If the decision is for git, please take care with
> the branch layout so that git-buildpackage *does* work out of the box,

*or* ship a proper config in the debian folder.

> and
> please *do* use the pristine-tar options.

Some projects decide not to store upstream source in the repository -
but if it is done, then yes please use pristine-tar.


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