[Pkg-vala-devel] pkg-vala?

[Kumar Appaiah]

On 11/10/2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> Thank you Kumar! Yet, I have a lot to learn too :).  Let's use the mailing list!

Perfect. This provides me the right environment to get to know git
closely, since it's the "in-thing" now.

> On 10/11/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > I am just wondering which patch you removed. Since you haven't named
> > the patch, I am unable to find out which one it is. I still see the
> > 20_from_svn-finally.patch there.
>
> Oups. I forgot to stag the change with "git add".

OK.

> > I put the orig.tar.gz in the parent directory.
>
> You don't need to do that. Upstream source is in the repository.
> Upstream branch is currently upstream-unstable (I guess this
> "unstable" is meaningful for debian, not for upstream). Each upstream
> is tagged with the same version number. Here 0.1.4.

Ah fine.

> > Now, it configures, and stops with this:
> > config.status: error: cannot find input file: doc/vala/Makefile.in
>
> I did the git-import-orig with some appropriate options to import the
> new upstream tarball with the same tag and branch scheme that lool
> uses.
>
> Fortunately, I just noticed that the .in were discarded by my global
> .gitignore.

Oh. It didn't strike me to check that that could have been the cause! :-)

> > I am wondering, where am I going wrong? Also, I notice that configure
> > isn't running again... what could be the mistake?
>
> I don't think you were wrong :)

However, I think the move to git has been good, since my reading about
git has given me the feeling that it's a wonderful "dirty" piece of
software, which will help getting work done better once one gets the
right feel. This is a good way for me to learn git.

> I have updated my local git branches, I reworked my patches..
> Unfortunately, I cannot push my changes since git refuses non-linear
> push (or push -f).
>
> What would be the right way to add the missing .in ?
>
> I still don't know what to do with .stamps.

Lets wait for the experienced devs to comment on this.

Thanks a lot for the clarifications!

Kumar
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