Hello, I'm banging my head trying to use Git to store the packaging for a new project whose upstream uses Git (on Github). Git is very powerful and fast, but it comes at the cost of simplicity it seems.
I'm still not clear how to do this task. I read the the wiki pages, but it looks like it's simpler to repack the upstream sources then use git-import-orig to import the upstream sources in your new Git repository. Do you have any better idea for doing this tasks? It looks wasteful to loose the ability to do a simple git pull to get the latest code from upstream. http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.NEW.UPSTREAM https://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaGit Could somebody write some receipes on the wiki for some common use cases: - Upstream does not use Git and I want to create a new package - bonus: I want to filter out some files from the raw upstream tarball - bonus 2: I want to patch some files on upstream - Upstream uses Git and I want to create a new package - bonus: I want to filter out some files from the raw upstream tarball - bonus 2: I want to patch some files on upstream - Given a package with a working debian/watch and get-orig-source target in debian/rules, how to I upload the new upstream in Git? - Given a new version tag in the upstream Git repository, how do I create the packaging for this new version? Another grip is that with svn, I could get all the package sources from the team with one command. svn checkout svn+ssh://$debsvnu...@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java With Git, I need to fetch each packages one by one. The pkg-ruby-extras team has a solution for this issue: they use a tool called mr and some configuration and you can get all packages managed by that team with a few commands. I propose that we use this tool for pkg-java as well, this could help us to manage those huge lists of packages. I'm setting up mr for pkg-java, tell me if you like it. https://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaGit Ludovic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee53035.50...@laposte.net
