Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 07:42:13PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:41:53PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > The particular commit was fine (and had it come as a MR or bug report or > > whatever I'd have had no problem with it at all). > > I'm not sure why you are so bothered by it. > > Granted, when I first experienced a git push not working after I > uploaded some package, I was also puzzled and a bit annoyed that someone > pushed into the master branch of 'my' package, but upon reflection I > decided: > > - this is great. someone contributed to make *many* Debian packages > better. > - git wise, I think, I reverted these commits, pushed my changes and > merged the reverted commits again. No big deal, except a bit of messy > history. There are several strategies to deal with, I choose the > quickest path.
Maybe even simpler: Create the tag for your upload (e.g. gbp tag). 'git push' that tag. 'git pull' the changes (which uses the merge machinery in case of overlapping changes). You then have a tag with the released package (it's not pointing to a commit on master but nobody says it has to) and all the changes integrated into master and the contributors changes will end up in the next release without any "messy" history due to reverts. Cheers, -- Guido > - I also learned to first do 'git fetch' before uploading. Maybe someone > put another present into git? > > So, yes, at first I was surprised too, now I'm gladly looking forward to > more of these contributions. > > That said, there is one exception, src:piuparts, where I'll dislike > drive-by commits to master. Why is explained in the CONTRIBUTING document > in the source code. Here I will most likely again just revert the > commits in the master branch, merge them in the develop branch and tell > the commiter. > > And surely, if you don't like other people contributing to 'your' stuff > directly, you are absolutly free to not have your packages in the debian > namespace. I do however think that having packages there by default is a > very good idea. > > > -- > cheers, > Holger > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org > PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
