[Pkg-puppet-devel] developing the 0.25.0 debs...

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net> writes:

> I think I was over-thinking the problem.  This seems to do what we want I think.
>
> (cd alioth repo)
> git remote add reductive git://reductivelabs.com/puppet.git
> git fetch --tags
> git checkout -b deb0250 0.25.0  # this is a tag on reductive
> git checkout origin/debian debian
> git commit -m "checkout debian subdir into 0.25.0 tree"
>
> and now I have a branch that I could publish to alioth that is 0.25.0
> plus our debian directory, with the history preserved of both sides.
>
> Sound ok to everyone?

Looks good.

Some bikeshedding: To enable git-buildpackage to use its defaults, this
cound be pushed to the "master" branch at alioth, and the contents of
the 0.25.0 tag from reductivelabs could then be available as the
"upstream" branch, as well as the "upstream/0.25.0" tag.

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