[DebianGIS-dev] Mapnik repository

[David Paleino]

Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:39:57PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:09:17AM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
>> > Hello people,
>> > sorry for the flood, but the mapnik repository did not have the
>> > appropriate layout and, while trying to fix it.. well. I screwed it up.
>> > So I had to create it twice.
>> > 
>> > The old repository, with full log, (the one created by the previous
>> > maintainer), is available on alioth:/git/pkg-grass/mapnik-old.git.
>> 
>> Erm, can't you fix that with various git reset invocations?
>> 
>> It would have been nice if you'd given me some feedback on what you
>> think is "appropriate".

Uh, I don't think that's a problem. Git is easy because you can move 
directories out of the way, and you're done (i.e. your repo is still there, 
I haven't touched it at all)

What I mean is the "git-buildpackage" layout, i.e.

master             # where Debian development happens, i.e. debian/
pristine-tar       # where pristine-tar deltas are stored
upstream           # where upstream sources are kept, to be merged in 
                     "master"

This eases tracking upstream versions, and managing multiple uploads to 
Debian (let's say: sid (master), experimental, backports, [..] (all these in 
separate branches mimicking "master" and "upstream")

> Or for that matter, start again from the known good respository that
> you obviously have (mapnik-old.git).

I don't think I easily can, but I should try.

Was mapnik-old.git (the one you pushed) generated/converted from some other 
repo? Or was it your main development repo?

Thank you for replying :)

Kindly,
David

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