On 2023-08-16 13:22, Simon McVittie wrote: > I personally think the extent to which git has "won", both upstream and in > Debian package maintenance, means that the Patch Tagging Guidelines should > be encouraging the git-like style as primary I think this is an excellent argument. DEP-3 hails from a time where we had (IIRC) 6 VCS supported on alioth, with svn being the dominant one. Today, practically everyone uses git, so the reasonable thing to do would be to optimize for that case.
Best, Christian