[Debian-med-packaging] ball.git created (nearly) from scratch [was: [ball] branch master created (now 0c5aaa0)]

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> for those who are interested in the ball package:  The repository did
> not contained a proper pristine-tar branch and I failed to fix this.  So
> I went back to the package released before the currently available
> package, imported the according tarball, did git format-patch / git am
> for all commits inbetween, injected the current package and continued to
> work from here.  So we have at least the history of the latest two
> released packages which seems to be sufficient to me.

Hi Andreas,

the documentation of git-buildpackage includes instructions for creating
a pristine-tar branch in an existing repository:

http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html

    git checkout --orphan upstream
    git rm -rf .
    git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial upstream branch.'
    git checkout -f master

I will add this to our group policy.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles