Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT (was: PAPT Git)

2016-08-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 10, 2016, at 08:49 PM, Brian May wrote: >Most of the time it works pretty well... It looked good compared with >the alternatives available at the time we made the decision. > >However this is irrelevant IMHO if it isn't being mantained. Yep. git-dpm was the best of breed at the time we we

Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT (was: PAPT Git)

2016-08-10 Thread Brian May
Thomas Goirand writes: > git-dpm also fails to tag upstream/foo automatically when importing a > new version. I've been told to use "git-dpm tag", but that's not > obvious. My own experience managing debian/patches quilt patches > manually or through gbp pq is actually much much nicer. The probl

Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT (was: PAPT Git)

2016-08-10 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2016-08-10 10:18, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Instead of > accepting the merge, and resolving conflicts later on, git-dpm goes into > the rebase conflict mode of Git, and it's often not obvious what to do > there. Messing-up everything, and restart from scratch (and then iterate > until done properl

Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT (was: PAPT Git)

2016-08-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/10/2016 09:21 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:50 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> On 2016-08-09 23:28, Daniel Stender wrote: >>> On this occasion ... let it be me to start the discussion: let's get into >>> Git >>> also for Python Apps soon. >> >> A common VCS for both DPM