Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Hm, that's a good point. I'm not sure. It's possible that maintaining a distinction between manipulating the output source package and manipulating the revision control system is good. I've documented more details frequently on a team wiki page for the Debian package mantenance team. > 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? The system that I describe doesn't maintain any branches that are useful targets for git format-patch. You'll end up with a pile of merge commits and other unuseful patches in your stack. The best idea that I've seen for maintaining good branches for git format-patch is to also maintain features on branches that are rebased instead of merged against each new upstream. This duplicates the change in two branches, one that's merged and one that's rebased, but you can use git rerere to automate resolution of the rebase and the merge using the results of whichever you do first. (This idea is from Manoj.) I'm not actually doing this in practice right now; so far, I'm just using git diff upstream..branch to generate patches to send to upstream, which obviously isn't ideal since it doesn't include the commit message. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss