Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-09, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> while quilt push ; do quilt refresh ; done >> quilt new 05_README_changes.diff >> quilt edit README >> quilt refresh > > I assume you have set QUILT_PATCHES=3Ddebian/patches in ~/.quiltrc for > this to work properly? yes. along with a lot

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2008-09-02, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get >> (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the >> debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the patc

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-08 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:06 +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: > The bzr equivalent of svn-buildpackage (the strangely named > bzr-builddeb) has a command "bd-do" which supports exactly this > use-case. For a merge-with-upstream package it exports the package, > then runs the command you speci

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-04 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 01:04, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > version control system (SVN). > > I have already svn-inject'ed the existing package into my repository. > Since the original source i

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.03.1926 +0100]: > Yeah, rebase being very cool is sometimes abnormally used, so I'm > not sure you have choosen the right git counterpart to the bzr's > loom feature. It should be compared with topgit instead, which > self-maintained source pa

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-03 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 05:04:12 Ben Finney wrote: --cut-- > I'm experimenting with Bazaar's "loom" feature, which allows a single > branch to contain multiple "threads" of development. A loom allows any > of the threads to be advanced, turned into separate patches as needed, > while still h

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-02, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get > (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the > debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the patches > that go into debian

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 9/3/08, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > > > version control system (SVN).

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be especially interested by any replacement for this. I am > starting to wonder about the viability of keeping the whole upstream > sources in a VCS. If a non-redistributable file brought by a new > upstream release were accidentally commited (i

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Ben, Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > > version control system (SVN). > > An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern V

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > version control system (SVN). An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern VCS software for flexibility of management. Any of Git, Bazaar, Darcs, or (perhaps) M

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas, Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:36AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach a écrit : > > Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get > (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the > debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the pat

Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a version control system (SVN). I have already svn-inject'ed the existing package into my repository. Since the original source is (in its current form) not re-distributable (due to licensing issues), I decided to use