Separate branch for experimental)

Sam Vilain sam at vilain.net
Thu Nov 1 02:38:31 UTC 2007


Joey Hess wrote:
> When I try git-dch, it outputs too many lines like
>   * fix dumb mistake
>   * no, my fix for dumb mistake was a dumb mistake, actually
> :-) I'm sure this looks better if all development on the release branch
> is carefully constrained to consolodated changesets that don't reflect
> the underlying development mess^Wprocess. Again, that may work well for some
> projects, but is seriously ambitious for others.

I think it makes sense to optimise for projects with a good change
management policy.

The approach I described still allows for customising how the
debian/changelog appears by copying it to debian/changelog.in, should
the upstream changelog from the commit tracking prove worthless.

Sam.



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