On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:31:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Julien Viard de Galbert <jul...@vdg.blogsite.org> (20/10/2010): > > Well actually the git repos is build using git-svn so I never > > downloaded a tarball. I think the explanation on how to configure > > git-svn on a clone from debian's package git should go to > > debian/README.source however this file currently came from xsfbs so > > I didn't change it. > > I'm not sure how to proceed with that one. Either adding a file > (possibly pointed to from README.source), or directly modifying the > README.source for openchrome, and living with (possible) conflicts > when merging from xsfbs. > Well I did add a paragraph at the beginning of README.source so I hope the merges with xsfbs will be easy. I also added a new README.VCS-source describing the git and git-svn usage.
> That said, git-svn is a bit special, since it's somehow linked to the > initial clone you did, with its local metadata. I guess somebody > willing to work on updating it as well could git svn clone upstream > starting with the last commit in the upstream branch, and then apply > patches manually from one (git-svn-based) branch to another > (“pure”-git) one. Unless some new feature appeared, helping people to > play around with git-svn in a distributed fashion. > I didn't do the initial git-svn checkout, but when adopting the package I found that configuring git-svn after cloning the git repos from debian was rebuilding the git-svn branch correctly, so I just described the steps in README.VCS-source. > > Unless the idea is to use pristine-tar for the first tarball we > > build for a particular svn revision so that later debian revision of > > the packages can be build directly from git... (just got it, right?) > > That's the idea, yeah. > > > I'll look into that. And that also needs to be documented, is > > debian/README.source the right place ? > > Yeah, that would be, with the same comments as above. > Done. But pristine-tar branch only have 0.2.904+svn842, I didn't do the one for the experimental branch as I didn't know if you prepared it already. Also the changes to debian-unstable should be merged (or cherry-picked) to the experimental branch. I didn't push that either, but I can, just ask. Regards Julien VdG -- Julien Viard de Galbert <jul...@vdg.blogsite.org> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <jul...@silicone.homelinux.org> GPG Key ID: D00E52B6 Published on: hkp://keys.gnupg.net Key Fingerprint: E312 A31D BEC3 74CC C49E 6D69 8B30 6538 D00E 52B6
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