[Debian-astro-maintainers] Move project from Subversion to debian-astro git

[Ole Streicher]

"Leo P. Singer" <leo.p.singer at nasa.gov> writes:
> I would like to move healpy
> (https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/healpy) from Subversion [..]
> to git (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro).

NIce to hear!

> Are there instructions for creating a new git-buildpackage style repo
> under debian-astro?

The basics: The repo should have three branches:

* upstream - contains the untarred upstream (without a single top dir),

* master (or debian) - branches off upstream and adds the debian subdir

* pristine-tar - is handled by the "pristine-tar" command.

So, the simple start (from scratch) is

$ mkdir healpiy
$ cd healpy
$ git init
$ git checkout -b upstream
$ gbp import-orig ../healpy_3.4.orig.tar.gz
$ git checkout master
$ mkdir debian; populate debian
$ git add debian ; git commit -m "Moved to git"
$ gbp dch -a
....

Cheers

Ole