On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:57:51 -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

(Maybe this helps to get the bug fixed?)

> How would I (1) checkout php-elisp, (2) edit a change, (3) possibly add
> a subdirectory for patches, (4) commit and push it back, and (5) build a
> package?
> 
> (1) From http://svn.debian.org I deduced the checkout as:
> 
> $ svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/collab-maint/ext-maint/php-elisp
> 
> But that gives me only the debian directory.  Where do you keep the
> upstream file?  Or do you build that separately and just copy your
> debian directory to this repo?

It's one mode of using svn-buildpackage to have only debian/ in svn.
I'm not familiar with this mode but there should be some docs around.
 
> (2) I guess I would just edit a file now, there's no `svn edit' command. 

Yes.
 
> (3) adding a file or a directory is simply with "svn add file", right?

Yes.

> (4) does "svn commit" push changes back to the repo?  Or is it local?

The repo is on the server, so a commit happens there (or "gets
pushed", if you prefer it that way :))
 
> (5) are you using package building tools specific to svn?

Most likely svn-buildpackage.


Cheers,
gregor
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