[Aptitude-devel] Tools 2: VCS

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org> was heard to say:
>   According to this page, you can do it, but the Debian branch ends up
> being totally independent of the main development branch (i.e., no
> common ancestors), so it's really just two repositories in one.  It
> sounds like you end up storing all the upstream source twice, which
> would be bad for people just tracking development -- maybe a separate
> repository is better?  Anyone with more experience here is free to
> comment.

  I just realized that since git names files according to their
contents and coalesces duplicates, you actually end up with only one
copy of everything anyway.  So this is totally doable.

  Daniel