git-packaging workflows

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi,

Recently, Russ' blog post was echoed on http://planet.debian.org:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html

In that post, he describes how to combine both the "import tarball"
and the "have upstream history" available in the upstream packaging
branch. AFAIUI, the heavy work is implemented in git-buildpackage's
--upstream-vcs-tag <tag> option.

While that option is news to me, I wonder if maybe anyone else already
experiments with this? Does the team feel that making it mandatory for
our package would be beneficial and appropriate?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard