On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:44:25 +0200, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: >'Require' is probably the wrong word. I simply have heard from several >potential young contributors that they feel blocked by the tooling and >specifically not everything in Git.
That does not only apply to young contributors. I am an old fart and I still shy back from packages where I need to familiarize myself with an uncommon packaging toolchain. >> then pull them, >> maybe into different branches, > >git-buildpackage maintains two or three branches: The main packaging >branch and an upstream branch. The pristine-tar branch is optional (but >default in the teams I'm working in) And not (any more?) default in the tools, thus easily forgotten. Greetings MArc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
