Re: help welcome

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:29, Klaumi Klingsporn <klaumikli@gmx.de> 
wrote:
> Am / On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:45:56 +0200
> schrieb / wrote Daniel Leidert <dleidert@debian.org>:
>
> >  Git is much more easy then it probably looks. Again I
> >  speak from my own experience. We have some workflows and
> >  can help you setup the environment (there are even some
> >  Germans here :)). Maybe the easiest way to start is you
> >  telling us what you want to do first.
>
> Ok, so Git it is!
>
> I tried to learn a little bit about git (mainly: man
> giteveryday), managed to get an account at salsa-debian.org,
> to generate a rsa-key and to upload it there.
>
> Then I cloned the repository:
> "git clone git@salsa.debian.org:ruby-team/ruby-cmdparse.git
> ruby-cmdparse"
> so I have a local copy, but only of the master branch!?
>
> First thing to do would be to import the new upstream
> version 3.0.6. I downloaded it as zip-file from
> https://github.com/gettalong/cmdparse. I extracted it and I
> think I should put it into the upstream-branch and tag it
> 'upstream/3.06'. But there is no upstream-branch in my local
> copy!?
>
> So, what did I wrong? Every hint and help is welcome to the
> stupid old man!

Next time do,
gbp clone --pristine-tar <url>

so it will create master, upstream and pristine-tar branches.

For now you can create those branches manually by,
git checkout upstream
git checkout pristine-tar
git checkout master

and for downloading the latest version, you can use,
uscan --verbose
gbp import-orig --pristine-tar <../...orig.tar.gz>

See https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/Packaging/UpdateUpstream for 
details.