output from the vcs-pkg BoF @DebConf9

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:37:46PM +0000, Frédéric Brière wrote:
> martin f krafft <madduck at debconf.org> wrote:
> >    The workflows I know currently are: my topgit workflow, Mehdi's
> >    quilt workflow, and Guido's git-buildpackage approach. There my
> >    be others.
> 
> Aren't Mehdi and Guido basically doing the same thing?  From what I
> understand, the only difference is that Guido uses git-rebase, while
> Mehdi manually applies the old patches to a new branch (which is exactly
> what git-rebase does).
I think they're pretty similar. I'm just not sure how Mehdi reimports
the patch series onto the patch-queue branch. I'm doing this as
described here:

https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/

Cheers,
 -- Guido