Hi Peter, Peter Pentchev wrote on 04/02/2019: > So these days I decided that DEP-14[1] actually seems to be a Good > Thing(tm) and I started thinking about switching my packages' Git > repositories to this layout. However, I immediately hit a snag: > in some of my repositories the upstream branch is named "master" and > the Debian packaging branch is named "debian". Due to a (somewhat > understandable, even though a leaky abstraction) limitation of Git, > I cannot create a "debian/master" branch if there already is a "debian" > branch in the repository.
I normally name the Debian development branch according to the suite name, so most of the time I'll name the branch "debian/sid". This layout is documented in DEP14. > I'm thinking of prefixing the new branches with, say, "pkg/" Not a good idea: this defies one of the main goals of DEP14, which is to have consistent and predictable branch names. Paride
