On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:45:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > branch layout for a given package. Regarding Debian, > > debian/README.source comes to mind quickly, but its current description > > in policy does not make it clear that it is the suitable place where to > > document branch layout. > The intention is to use that file for anything that helps explain how to > make changes to a Debian source package. I think this would qualify.
I take your word on this :-), ... but can I suggest to improve the wording of Policy 4.14 to make it clearer? As it is right now the wording is totally source package oriented. Hence, if one has a source package which is entirely VCS-free (as it is normal to be), the text describing README.source just does not apply, as the source package is totally unrelated to the used VCS. That's why I was puzzled and why I asked. > FWIW, I've been keeping notes on what I'm personally doing at: > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html This is very interesting, thanks a lot for it! What others here do think of the workflow / branch layout you propose? Are there any other usual suspect as possible workflows / layouts? A point of your notes is still obscure to me though. You wrote about using a tmp-branch merge to serialize merges when conflicts arises from multiple feature branches. I fail to understand if that implies that I can then serialize, by just invoking git format-patch appropriately on master, changes as separate patches one per feature branch or not. Actually I'm not convinced it is possible, as that way you are serializing merges, not all the past history of commits coming from different feature branches, am I missing something? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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