On 02.05.2016 02:06 +0200, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
On 29 April 2016 at 22:42, Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:55:29PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
But you said you preferred it to be pushed with just a tag!
yes, but not in master!
A tag is always wanted in any case, with "just a tag" I was meaning a
tag that is not in any branch, try having a look at some package of mine
with a backport (like pbuilder, diffoscope, s3fs-fuse,...), you'll see
that there is a bpo tag, but the commit referenced by that tag is not in
any branch.
But I can easily see how this can be confusing/hard, so a
jessie-backports tag is just a very good way to deal with it! :)
So you wanted me to detach from the master branch with: git checkout
master^ before making changes?
git checkout master^ would bring you to whatever is right before master
(what's so special about the second-last commit on master?)
You should make sure that you are on the commit describing the uploaded
package, which not always is what is pointed by master.
So probably here I'd say that you should do `git checkout debian/3.7.2-1`
(or whatever version you are backporting) before doing anything
And when the next version of the package hits stable I'd git checkout
master && git checkout master^ ?
erm? Can't understand what you mean here (1/ "hits stable" is very much
something not real 2/ `git checkout master && git checkout master^`
looks very fishy, what would do that?)
This is question I've been trying to answer: How do you detach from
HEAD? I read a possibly obsolete article that said to add the caret
symbol at the end of the branch do do this. Is this not the case? Is
it rather "git checkout master^0"? And in this case, isn't it more
appropriate to to do "git checkout --detach debian/3.7.2-1".
I will fix that.
The best way is creating jessie branch and prepare backport there.
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