[pkg-fso-maint] special git layout - how to package

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 28.04.2009, 19:26 +0200 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag 28 April 2009 10:26:25 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> 
> > I think what you need to do here is
> > echo efdb84b74e983be9e0cab7aeb9f732c67e1b0c02
> > .git/refs/heads/libfsotransport and then "git checkout libfsotransport".
> >
> > Oh, and BTW, when you later just merge from the all-in-one-branch, you
> > don’t have to do that again, but you have to specify "git merge -s
> > subtree".
> cool, it works :-)
> 
> One thing I noticed: it seems to be necessary to also initially "git merge -s 
> subtree master", as the revision history in gitk is empty before and fully 
> filled after this merge. (The content itself is there from the beginning)

ok, I didn’t know of this way. What I did instead was, I think, to pass
the last upstream commit to git commit-tree as a parent commit. But both
should be fine.

Greetings,
Joachim

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