Am Freitag, den 01.02.2008, 08:25 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And people should check the VCS history just to get the current > > "patch"? > > What is "the current patch"?
The current specific/logical patch for one issue. > If you mean the entire set of differences > against the upstream source, I already addressed that: simply generate > a diff between the branches containing upstream source versus > debian-packaged source. I did not refer to generate the .diff.gz. I know, this can easily be done by diff-ing two branches. What I mean is: Say you have addressed 5 different issues in the code. I still think it is easier to understand, if 5 separate patches are provided instead of one. And tracking each of them be checking commits for the initial fix and changes done later to update the fix is IMHO not as easy as simply providing a separate patch. As long as you maintain the package alone, you probably do not have advantages of using separate patches. But say e.g. a co-maintainer offers help or you do collaborative maintenance in general. Then I think, it is much easier to separate fixes into logical patches. And IMHO this cannot be done by just using "good" commit messages. > As I pointed out, there are already tools that generate an entire > Debian source package, including 'foo.orig.tar.gz' and 'foo.diff.gz', > in a single step from a given VCS. Evidently what you ask for is > possible, and already indeed implemented such that it is easy. What I ask for is already possible and implemented: quilt and dpatch exist. But I cannot agree to your opinion, that "[..] commits [..] at the same level of granularity (or finer) [..]" offer the same functionality and advantages. This is IMO not a valuable replacement for separated patches, because of the reasons I tried to point out in my last mail. I read your answer to Raphael, where you point to so called "feature branches". This leads to the question, if people should be forced to use a special VCS (which is already discussed somewhere else in the thread), whereas creating Debian packages never relayed on the usage of a VCS. To be honest, your workflow is different to mine. I would need to examine your way and compare it to mine. All I can say is, that I'm pretty satisfied with my workflow and I'm sure, you claim the same for your solution. > If you mean something else by "the current patch", please explain > further. HTH Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
