Hi Mehdi, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:50:54PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: [..snip..] > We, Debian OCaml Maintainers, have some tools related to the > maintenance of our packages hosted in a Git repository. > > We think that they could be useful for other maintainers too. Yeah, great! Some comments below:
> The 5 tools we would like to see integrated in the git-buildpackage > package are: > > - dom-git-checkout foo: Checkouts the source package foo from its Git > repository and tracks upstream and pristine-tar branches. It needs > an additional argument which is the unix group on alioth used to find > the full path of the Git repository on alioth. > - dom-safe-pull: Updates the repository if it's fast-forward. Helps to > keep a clean history without a lot of administrative-merges. Wouldn't it make sense to have these two merged? Like: gbp-pull uri and cd $repo gbp-pull I'd also be great to built these things using the python gbp stuff in git-buildpackge. This would have the advantage that you get gbp config parsing for free and this way you could figure out the correct remove upstream and pristine-tar branches by looking at the configuration instead of "guessing". What do you think? > - dom-apply-patches and dom-save-patches: they propose a way to manage > patches in Git repos using quilt. This conflicts a bit with gbp-pq. I'll rewrite gbp-pq in python, maybe we can then merge things together? They do basically the same but on different branches. > - dom-new-git-repo pkgname tarball: Creates a new Git repository on > alioth and sets up cia and mail notifications. Again, it needs the > unix group name. This is very useful but needs we need to get rid of the hard coded mail adresses, etc. first. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
