converting the vlc packaging branch to git

[Reinhard Tartler]

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>  - the "upstream branch" should share the history of 
>>    git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
>
>  Are you confident with this?  The problem is that autogenerated files
>  such as Makefile.in aren't in the upstream history, these are only in
>  the released tarballs; this means that the tree you manipulate is
>  different from the extracted Debian source package made from upstream
>  tarball + diff.
>
>  I find it much clearer to import tarballs in the git tree.

Christophe? what do you think?

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