Re: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits
On 16 October 2014 20:12, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:
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> Tristan Seligmann wrote:
>> If you are fetching the upstream revisions / tags into your packaging
>> repository, you can use the upstream tag exactly as-is, no need to
>> re-tag (and indeed re-tagging would generally be a bad idea).
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> I think there is a lot of value to always including the Debian upstream/v1.0
> tag. It provides a standard way to access the upstream version across all
> repos. There is no such standard out there "in the wild". There are tags
> like v1.0, 1.0, release-1.0, the-real-1.0, etc. etc.
Renaming the tag does not require retagging, git tag objects (perhaps
unfortunately) do not include their name.
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