On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 13:48 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > What I like: > 1. Rebasing is easier > 2. I can log, diff, etc. through our changes and upstream changes > > What I don't like: > 3. Pushing is more complicated > 4. Cherry-picking is more complicated > 5. Git working directory looks different from unpacked source package > 6. It's not possible to see the history of one of our patches > > (3) and (4) definitely need to be addressed, either by documentation > (if I'm missing some git feature or config) or by scripting. > > I think I can live with (5) and (6). For (6), maybe we should start > putting Change-Ids in our changes so that it would be possible to find > all versions using 'git log --tags=debian --grep=...'
A couple more things I don't like: 7. The DFSG changes are not documented in the source package 8. Each featureset is reduced to a single patch in the source package (7) should be easy to fix, as the history is linear, except where we delete part of a file. (8) should be easy to fix for the 'none' featureset as its history will also be linear. For any other featuresets, reducing to a single patch may be unavoidable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody
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