Re: Git Branch Names / DEP-14

2019-11-06 Thread Ansgar
Simon McVittie writes: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 at 20:40:43 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> My normal use of experimental does not involve maintaining unstable and >> experimental branches simultaneously. > ... >> I know some people do more of a two-branch setup > > One common reason to need to use

Re: Git Branch Names / DEP-14

2019-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 at 20:40:43 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > My normal use of experimental does not involve maintaining unstable and > experimental branches simultaneously. ... > I know some people do more of a two-branch setup One common reason to need to use experimental more actively is if

Re: Git Branch Names / DEP-14

2019-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Richard Laager writes: > If someone is working with both unstable and experimental, then they > must use two branches to differentiate them. DEP-14 says to do so with > debian/experimental for experimental. So far, so good. For unstable, > DEP-14 says to use debian/sid or debian/unstable. Why

Git Branch Names / DEP-14 (Was: Re: Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [comments by 11/05/2019])

2019-11-05 Thread Richard Laager
On 11/5/19 9:51 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Richard Laager writes: >> I'd love to see more information about a recommended branch >> structure. FWIW, I've been using branches named for each release >> (e.g. "sid" is the default, but I also have "buster" for a (proposed) >> stable update, will