how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:25:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2008.07.15.2031 +0200]:
> > I'm a happy (Debian) package maintainer which have just switched
> > most of his packages from svn to git. All nice, finally I can work
> > directly on a real source code tree instead of fiddling with patch
> > management system. Nevertheless, patches are separate in topic
> > branches which enable knowing the conceptual changes applied to
> > upstream sources.
> 
> So that I can remove this thread from my pending list, have you
> looked at topgit? I know it's still rough, but I think it's what
> you're looking for. topgit's source package has a README.source, and

I've looked at least at what topgit is and I indeed got convinced that
it is what I was looking for. Still, I haven't put it into use to be
able to comment any further.

Cheers.

-- 
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