Hi, You have to ask Paul Bremer that. Me, I am merely a happy user. I did grok it at one point, but I no longer recall that.
Manoj On September 7, 2014 11:05:50 AM PDT, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 22:03 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 07 2014, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> > On September 6, 2014 11:30:11 PM EDT, Manoj Srivastava ><sriva...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> > I'll confess up front that I'm a neophyte when it comes to git. >From >> > what I can tell though we've been using git-dpm for feature >branches >> > in pkg-clamav and it seems to me to work fine. >> >> Oh, it works mostly fine, with some finicky handling of the >> ephemeral patched branch. I must worry about checking out the >patched >> branch, sherry picking commits to it, handling conflicts, rebasing, >> squashing, rearranging -- and I did all that for a while before I >> discovered git-debcherry, It got old fast. Perhaps it is my fault, >my >> feature branches sometimes have slightly overlapping changes. I >never >> ever want to muck with something merely to create serialized linear >> patches for packaging. >[...] > >How does git-debcherry cope with the overlapping changes when >generating >debian/patches? What can you do if it fails to linearise the changes >(as, apparently, it may sometimes do)? > >Ben. > >-- >Ben Hutchings >Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment >destroyed. > - Carolyn Scheppner -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
