Re: elegant(?) debian topgit workflow?

From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Date: Dec 24, 2009, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <4B339802.7040003@dgreaves.com>
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530912240714y798085d8r3bf88011e8ec782b@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
>> branches
>> --------
>>
>> upstream
> 
> I would call it 'master'. That's how upstream would call it.
> 
>> debian/*, fixes/*, features/* - topgit branches based on upstream
>> patches - the hero
>> master - contains the debian/ dir and is the branch we build from
> 
> Think about other systems, like Ubuntu and Maemo, it would be nice to
> have branches both for Maemo and Debian on the same repo:
> debian - what you call 'master'
> debian-patches - what you call 'patches'
> maemo5 - contains the debian/ dir, but for Maemo 5
> maemo5-patches - patches for Maemo 5, might be based on top of debian-patches

I've been touting for feedback on this for a while :)

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/UsingGitorious

David

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