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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.
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Version: 0.8-3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package topgit has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1115196
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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