Re: Debian XSF SVN to git migration
David wrote:
> After discussing this with Michel on irc, it doesn't look like it'll be
> possible to use git the way I had written down. I've revised the policy
> based on what Michel and I discussed[0].
>
> It's much simplified, and basically behaves as you expect it to. If you
> want to work on bleeding edge stuff from upstream, just pulling from the
> debian* branch should give you the packaging. We believe it won't overwrite
> local changes if you've cloned from, say, freedesktop.org because the
> history should be intact.
>
> The one weird thing is that there's no master branch by default, nor is
> there an upstream branch, both of which git-buildpackage expects by
> default. It's trivial to locally create those branches depending on
> what you're doing though.
>
> I'm going to wait a little while longer to see what everyone thinks. I want
> to make sure everyone is back from holidays and had a chance to chew this
> over before we make the move.
>
> - David Nusinow
>
> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/git-usage
Your ideas seem to make sense, though I haven't spent as much time
thinking it all through as you Thierry, Michel and others have.
With all the various branches coming from different directions all at
once, it's tricky to keep the proposed policy all in one's head all at
once. Would it be possible to commit one of the lesser, smaller modules
to git, one of the protos, say? With some hands on access I think it
might be easier to evaluate whether it all holds together the way we
want it to. libdrm is already there, but it's not quite xorg.
Drew
p.s. The first and third points in the tutorial at
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/git-usage, is one of them
redundant?
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