Hello, On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 10:33PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I don't know. > As I said in my mail I'm not even sure there's a problem here. > > Let me give a bit of background here. > Ian and I had what I thought was a really exciting call about git and > source packages and stuff. > > It sounded like Ian hopes we'll some day get rid of patches-unapplied > data models from our processes. Yes, that is the hope. > I think the one explicit concrete suggestion I'd make is to make it so a > casual user can read git-debrebase (1) without git-debrebase(5) > Or something so there's one man page that a user can start with that > tells them enough to get going, and that they can approach git-debrebase > without dgit. > > Rationale: > > 1) dgit is more complex and has more failure modes because as we all > know, turning a git tree into a quilt dsc is really hard. > > 2) I think we're hoping eventually that pushing to salsa does the > dgit-like-thing (possibly by calling dgit) and users don't need to do > that themselves. Agreed on all counts. How about putting a very short, simplified, dgit-free version of dgit-maint-debrebase(7) into a subsection of git-debrebase(1), called "Quick start guide", with a reference to dgit-maint-debrebase as the next thing to read? -- Sean Whitton
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