[Debian-med-packaging] ball.git created (nearly) from scratch [was: [ball] branch master created (now 0c5aaa0)]

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 08:31:56AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> the documentation of git-buildpackage includes instructions for creating
> a pristine-tar branch in an existing repository:
> 
> http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html
> 
>     git checkout --orphan upstream
>     git rm -rf .
>     git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial upstream branch.'
>     git checkout -f master
> 
> I will add this to our group policy.

Thanks.  I'm not sure whether this would have helped me to save some
time yesterday to solve my problems in building because I had the
feeling that the repository had more quirks than this but it is a nice
additional tip. 

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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