Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:42:54 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Hmm. You say things like this:
>> Because the git format is imho conceptualy broken and the
>> implementation is far from completely thought out.
>
> And then you go saying things like that:
>> It is trivial to generate a quilt format package from git/arch/hg/svn
>> and I'm sure there will be a RCS-build-package soon enough that does
>> that.
>
> This can not happen without manual intervention, if the topic
> branches have overlap. And Redoing the manual conflict resolution over
> and over and over again is a burden (the manual conflict resolution
> lives generally in the integration branch history, and can be done
> once, and mostly ignored from that point on).
A quilt format package with a single combined patch. Get the
integration branch, get orig.tar.gz, build. dpkg-buildpackage will
automatically create a debian_version.patch for you. It is easy.
I'm not saying you get a nice and shiny debian/patches/* out of
it. That indeed needs human interaction as already said elsewhere.
To the non git (even not quilt) experienced user the combined patch
will be usable in that he can edit the source and fix bugs. The git
format does not allow that.
Even with some git knowledge I think that most users that write a
patch won't follow the maintainers workflow. They won't find the right
feature branch a patch belongs to and how to merge that into an
integration branch. Instead they will just edit the source, git commit
and send the resulting patch. And that means you get a patch against
the integration branch. Same as you would with the quilt format.
Users that dig deeper into the source to find out the maintainers
workflow I would expect to be able to find the maintainers git
repository too and just use that directly. So the only use for the git
format is for people that can already use the original git
repository. Hence my view that it is a bad format.
MfG
Goswin
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