Git workflow [was Re: Your upload of r-cran-xts]
On 15 March 2018 at 14:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:05:03AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| > On 15 March 2018 at 13:17, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| > | And I'm in no way trying to deter you from updating packages from the team.
| > | Quite the contrary, since you have commit rights on all the team's
| > | repositories. You are more than welcome to contribute to those packages, as
| > | long as you follow the team practices (which essentially means sticking to the
| > | git workflow using git-buildpackage).
| >
| > ... for which I'd need a tutorial or someone patient for a one-on-one.
| >
| > I have been doing this since 1995, and for most of this time via a local
| > pbuilder (which I am quite familiar and happy with). I probably would have to
| > adjust all my local scripts etc which simply is a barrier to entry I have
| > been meaning to devote time to for some time now, but haven't yet. My loss,
| > but that is the status quo (coupled with the aforementioned de-motivation due
| > to other non-technical reasons).
| >
| > So thanks for the invite, it is appreciated, I even cloned a repo, but don't
| > hold your breath. My current setup works, and we all have other things to do
| > too that rejigging tools.
|
| Sure, I understand that it takes time and energy to move to another workflow.
|
| If that helps, I wrote a git-buildpackage tutorial for another team with a
| quite similar workflow (the only difference is the changelog entries; in the
| r-pkg-team we prefer to manage them with "gbp dch", see the gbp-dch(1)
| manpage, which means that we don't use debcommit):
|
| https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCommonLisp/GitPackaging
|
| If you think it is worth it I could create a modified copy of this page for the
| r-pkg-team, let me know.
That helped. With a simple gbp buildpackage --git-builder=pdebuild I
was able to build one.
Now, I looked at all of this a million times before ... but where the (good)
tutorials on starting "from scratch", ie how do
- get an upstream tarball into the pristine-tar and upstream branches
- how do I inject existing debian/ directories etc pp
as I might as well slowly convert my exiting 100+ package repos.
Dirk
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