debian/topics and conflict resolution

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

        Perhaps I should wait after drinkina high sugar content drink
 before posting.

On Mon, Oct 06 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06 2008, martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at acm.org> [2008.10.04.0735 +0200]:
>>>         Right. The diff.gz is what the buildd's are fed, each of the
>>>  patchsets in ./debian/topic recreate exactly the feature branches used
>>>  to develop the code, the orig.tar.gz is the upstream branch. So, just
>>>  using the orig.ar.gz and each of these patches, one can exactly
>>>  replicate the tip of all the branches in use.
>>
>> Who resolved conflicts, if the serialisation (== conflict
>> resolution) is expressively *not* done before building the source
>> package?
>
>         Why does it matter to people who are looking at the source
>  package who exactly created the integration branch? It could have been
>  manually created, it could have been created with the assistance of
>  tools.

        I think I missed the point here. I never said the integration
 branch is not built before the source package is. I am thinking that my
 current work-flow is not so bad, if only I add the separate patches
 people want. So, I create my integratio branch as I have done since
 2003, and I just ship the feature and the integration branch as
 patches.

        Sorry for jumping the gun.

>         The take away point is that  with independent features, it
>  should be feasible for people to study each feature in isolation, or
>  all together, easily.
>
>         Looking at subsets of features, but more than one at a time, is
>  a less common task, and should be possible, but perhaps require a
>  little work.

         manoj

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