Package: git-debrebase Version: 6.4 X-debbugs-cc: jcowg...@debian.org Hello,
As discussed just now, git-debrebase should have a 'convert-from-dgit-view' subcommand. By this I mean a subcommand that converts from a non-git-debrebase patches-applied view, to a git-debrebase view. Uses: 1) Starting to use git-debrebase on an existing package that has no existing git history, or whose git history you want to throw away, or where you just want to do some work in a stable release suite for a stable update, while ignoring the maintainer git history. dgit-maint-debrebase(7) says you can just `dgit clone`, but in fact that is not enough. 2) Switching from dgit-maint-merge(7) to dgit-maint-debrebase(7) (the other direction is easy). A package might start off suitable for the dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow but then the number of patches not upstreamable might grow to the point that git-debrebase would be more useful. You'd run convert-from-dgit-view and this would give you a single entry in the delta queue, which you'd then split up using a debrebase. -- Sean Whitton
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