On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:22:08PM +0200, Christian MICHON wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:13 PM, James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the "upstream" branch I maintain in my git repository for the Debian > > package, I have a script which simply applies Bram's patches with the > > patch command and then constructs commit messages based on the short > > description from the README file on the ftp server and the block > > description in the actual patch. > > > > -- > > yes, this is what I do too (for many years). It's frustrating to find > out git does not swallow all types of patches. > > Thanks for the explanations. Apparently, we use a similar approach to > build a git repo. Is yours already available somewhere ?
Yes, it's available at git.debian.org[0]. update-patches[1] is the script I use. Lines 55-65 are the parts that update the upstream branch and the rest is just to ease the process of keeping the Debian branches updated. [0] - http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-vim/vim.git [1] - http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-vim/vim.git;a=blob;f=debian/update-patches;hb=HEAD -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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