On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 05:15PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 09/03/22 at 08:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 01:08pm +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> > Also, how would that work with packages that combine direct changes to > >> > upstream, and quilt for Debian-created patches? > >> > >> Could you expand? I didn't think this category was one of the ones Russ > >> and I were talking about. > > > > My limited understanding of the landscape of git workflows is that a > > workflow that is quite popular among packages still using the 1.0 format > > is the one used by the Debian X strike force. Julien Cristau described > > it as follows when I asked about it on IRC: > > > > < jcristau> [...] basically, for upstream patches we cherry-pick > > commits directly, and we use quilt for changes that aren't upstream > > Ah right, thank you. I wasn't really thinking of this case as being > about git workflows. Are the repos patches-applied or > patches-unapplied? > The patches that we keep in quilt are not applied in the repo. (Obviously the cherry-picked patches are.)
Cheers, Julien
