Re: svn management, git, etc

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:53:13AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
[...]
> > Yeah, getting all our patches merged upstream is of course a goal of mine,
> > so this is heartening. Just out of curiosity, how would git be more helpful
> > than producing a diff and applying it to the upstream tree, followed by
> > commit 'n push?
> 
> Oh, if you're committing it anyway, then that works too, but if you have
> it in git, then given that all you need is 'git push origin' (to push
> everything), or whatever, then the barrier to entry for you is lowered a
> great deal, and the barrier to entry to us finding out exactly what
> Debian's done (I'm obviously comfortable dissecting Debian packages,
> others are not) is also lowered a great deal.

Are you implying that we will drop our patch system?  If not, I am
curious to know how having our patches in git will help merging with
upstream.

Denis