On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:53:13AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: [...] > > Yeah, getting all our patches merged upstream is of course a goal of mine, > > so this is heartening. Just out of curiosity, how would git be more helpful > > than producing a diff and applying it to the upstream tree, followed by > > commit 'n push? > > Oh, if you're committing it anyway, then that works too, but if you have > it in git, then given that all you need is 'git push origin' (to push > everything), or whatever, then the barrier to entry for you is lowered a > great deal, and the barrier to entry to us finding out exactly what > Debian's done (I'm obviously comfortable dissecting Debian packages, > others are not) is also lowered a great deal.
Are you implying that we will drop our patch system? If not, I am curious to know how having our patches in git will help merging with upstream. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
