a workflow based on rebasing? (was: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines)

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Jul 22 13:54:01 UTC 2009


(I'm dropping debian-devel since this probably better fits into
vcs-pkg-discuss)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:32:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> [2009.07.22.1523 +0200]:
> > Sure. I think I do understand what James is talking about. It's
> > basically a matter of taste if you rebase patch branches or use
> > topgit - both have their up and downsides.
> 
> With reference to
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/vcs-pkg-discuss/2009-May/000616.html,
> I'd love to see a detailed account of your workflow. I am failing to
> wrap my head around how it would work and would appreciate being
> able to learn from you.
I have some notes here:
  https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/
It really is simple and probably not suitable for complex tasks with
intersecting patches but so far sufficient for the packages I (and some
of the teams I work in) have to deal with.
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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