[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Migrating some repositories to Git

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> [2009-04-30 08:50]:

> I very strongly suggest to use git-buildpackage and store the upstream
> source in the git repository itself, and use pristine-tar. I will do
> that for my packages, if all the other uploaders agree. The big
> advantage of this approach is that creating Debian specific patches is
> super easy --- you just change the files in the "debian" branch.
> Thanks to git, you can always easily merge the patches if new upstream
> is released. No need to hassle with the debian/patches directory.

What does this mean?  Do the patches always end up in the .diff.gz?

-- 
Rafael