converting the vlc packaging branch to git
Free Ekanayaka
freee at debian.org
Wed Dec 31 10:28:59 UTC 2008
Hi,
|--==> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:31:26 +0100, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> said:
LM> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>- the "upstream branch" should share the history of
>>git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
LM> Are you confident with this? The problem is that autogenerated files
LM> such as Makefile.in aren't in the upstream history, these are only in
LM> the released tarballs; this means that the tree you manipulate is
LM> different from the extracted Debian source package made from upstream
LM> tarball + diff.
LM> I find it much clearer to import tarballs in the git tree.
Me too. If you have to track the upstream git repository I'd suggest
using a third branch, like:
master (upstream + debian packaging)
upstream (upstream tarball releases, imported with git-import-orig)
upstream-devel (head of upstream git repository)
Ciao!
Free
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