Re: how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-09-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:25:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.15.2031 +0200]: > > I'm a happy (Debian) package maintainer which have just switched > > most of his packages from svn to git. All nice, finally I can work > > directly on

Re: how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.15.2031 +0200]: > I'm a happy (Debian) package maintainer which have just switched > most of his packages from svn to git. All nice, finally I can work > directly on a real source code tree instead of fiddling with patch > management syste

Re: how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-07-20 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:31:04PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Specifically for Debian: do we have any guideline on how to do that? If > not it is probably worth to create one ... For simple patches I maintain a patch-queue branch (which gets rebased of course) and debian/rules has: redo-pa

Re: how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Specifically for Debian: do we have any guideline on how to do that? If > not it is probably worth to create one ... > > And finally, the problem of the problems: how about the situation where > one patch for topic branch is not enough as topic branches have got > inter

Re: how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-07-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:38:14PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I don't split out patches, but all my Debian packages live on > git.debian.org (except software where I'm the upstream, in which case > it's on my own git server). Using gitweb, people can inspect the > changelog and download diffs of

how to generate patches out of $DVCS branches: best practices?

2008-07-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I'm a happy (Debian) package maintainer which have just switched most of his packages from svn to git. All nice, finally I can work directly on a real source code tree instead of fiddling with patch management system. Nevertheless, patches are separate in topic branches which enable knowing the con