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 patches

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 of other

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 specify in

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 is (in

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

2008-09-03 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

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 having a

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 package

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

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

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)

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 VCS

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 (in my

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). An