Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Converting to dgit (was: How to get history into dgit)"): > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:22:54PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I'll have to bring this up one more time. I just read > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794244, and that > > sounds (in "USING GIT-DPM WITH DGIT FOR THE FIRST TIME") as if I should > > also stitch the existing dgit history into my git repository. > > > > Is that information outdated, or should I still do that? > > I've never used git-dpm(1), but I would guess that information is out of > date because it was written before the --quilt=dpm option was added to > dgit.
Wow, it is very optimistic to describe the manpage skeleton in #794244 as `information'. It's guesses by someone (me) who doesn't know git-dpm. Certainly that manpage skeleton ought to have some `--dpm' options sprinkled over it. And the `git merge -s ours' can be avoided nowadays by passing dgit `--overwrite' (which does the check mentioned there too). I see from another bug that Nikolaus is trying this out. Nikolaus: please do ask for help if you get trouble, and I'll try to sort you out. Hopefully when you're done we can construct a useful and mostly-true workflow guideline manpage! Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.