Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]> writes: > On 19/10/2012 11:16, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> What did you mean by that last sentence? I was unable to parse it. In >> particular, I think I don't understand the difference between "tracked >> as a branch" and "track a pristine-tar delta against the upstream git >> branch," which both sound like they mean the same thing. > I think he meant running pristine-tar commit with tarballs on upstream > branches that share history with the upstream VCS repository, rather > than the upstream branch that git import-orig maintains. > But there shouldn't really be an issue with this kind of usage either -- > I've used pristine-tar with upstream VCS branches before for storing > release tarballs. Indeed, and with --upstream-vcs-tag, it's now easy to combine the merits of both approaches. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
