Package: topgit Version: 0.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream To my understanding, topgit can create a patch for the current state of a topic branch. It would be nice if it could extract patches corresponding to a historical state too.
Specifically, assume that there's a 'pristine' branch, a number of topgit branches, and a branch (topgit or not) from where a Debian package is built. Once the package is built, the commit is tagged, e.g. debian/1.0-1. Development continues, the topgit branches are tg-updated, and now it seems impossible to extract the topgit patches that went into debian/1.0-1. It seems like the solution is a tg-tag command, which, when called like tg-tag debian/1.0-1 tgbranch[, tgbranch, ...] tags the top-bases and tips of all specified tg-branches, e.g. like this: refs/top-tags/debian/1.0-1/base and refs/top-tags/debian/1.0-1/tip Now, tg-patch could learn to deal with a tag name, and it would simply use those two refs instead of the top-base of the current branch and the tip. Does this seem like a viable approach? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages topgit depends on: ii git-core 1:1.5.6.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi topgit recommends no packages. topgit suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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