TopGit: Is there still a need for a long-lived build branch?

2009-05-05 Thread Frédéric Brière
Hiya everybody, I've recently converted my opencbm[1] package to TopGit, adopting a workflow similar to that suggested by Martin. The main difference is that instead of maintaining a separate long-lived build branch, I'm exporting all patches directly on master. Maybe it's just me, but I can't

Re: TopGit: Is there still a need for a long-lived build branch?

2009-05-05 Thread James Vega
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:18:51PM -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: I've recently converted my opencbm[1] package to TopGit, adopting a workflow similar to that suggested by Martin. The main difference is that instead of maintaining a separate long-lived build branch, I'm exporting all patches

TopGit: How to retire obsolete topic branches?

2009-05-05 Thread Frédéric Brière
Let's say I've once created the topic branch fixes/foo, which has now been incorporated in the latest upstream release. What is the best way of dealing with this now-obsolete branch? (Let's pretend for simplicity's sake that it is not part of any other branch's base.) Am I right to assume that

Re: TopGit: Is there still a need for a long-lived build branch?

2009-05-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frédéric Brière fbri...@fbriere.net [2009.05.05.2118 +0200]: Maybe it's just me, but I can't see the point in having a dedicated long-lived[2] build branch separate from master anymore. The point for me is inherent in #500656: to be able to obtain the source tree for a package in

Re: autogenerating debian/NEWS (was: TopGit: Is there still a need for a long-lived build branch?)

2009-05-05 Thread James Vega
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:59:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach James Vega james...@debian.org [2009.05.05.2135 +0200]: Files that are purely a result of the final integration (like debian/changelog, debian/NEWS, and debian/patches/*) only exist in the integration branch. This