On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Teemu Ikonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.30.2329 +0200]: >> At the moment, yes, but the new dpkg with version 3.0 quilt format >> builds the source package from sources with the patches applied. >> This enables one to store the integrated sources in VCS, generate >> debian/patches from branches (e.g. with topgit) and build >> a debian.tar.gz with simply calling dpkg-source, providing that an >> orig.tar.gz is also available. > > Assuming we have a number of feature branches, we may well have to > resolve conflicts among them, so an integration branch seems like > the right way forward. So unless we just build the package from the > integration branch to produce a monolithic patch, your algorithm is > something to focus on! I am still not convinced that it is possible > to extract historic patches from the ancestry of a tag on the > integration branch, but I'd love to be proven wrong! Unfortunately, > I won't be able to look into this again before next week.
I thought about this some more and indeed there are problems. Generating patches based on just one tag in the integration branch probably would work when all the topic branches are still alive (i.e. there is a head ref which can be used to find all the commits belonging to the branch), but when the head ref is removed (because the patch is merged upstream for example) finding correct heads and bases for the topic branches becomes impossible. I don't think it's feasible to expect that all the topic branch heads are stored indefinitely, so this approach will not work. Your idea of storing two tags per topic branch per release is much more robust, although without automated tagging of all the branch heads and bases and linking them to a master tag in the integration branch it will be too laborious for practical use IMHO. Since all the topgit branch heads and bases are by definition there when the tags should be created, perhaps the algorithm I proposed would be useful then. Teemu _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss