git-packaging workflows

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-04-06 09:32:04)
> 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?

I have (way more complex) practiced that for a few years for Sugar 
packages.  Now that it has become dead simply to do with 
git-buildpackage I wholeheartedly welcome mandating it - but only for 
those of our upstreams that themselves use git, obviously.


 - Jonas

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