On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:30:40 +0100, Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On another note, I have a slight problem with the (other) proposal of
> using a (git/$DVCS) repository as the form of source package
> distribution. Mainly because I think this will usually add
> bloat. While developing/packaging, I often see intermediate commits
> which need to be heavily modified or even reverted to finally build
> the patch I wanted to get working. Though these commits are fine in
> the Repository, I wouldn't want to see all the intermediate steps in
> the source package.
I take it that you do not use sloppy branches to do
development. I can see why you generate cruft in the repo. I generally
do my development in a sloppy branch, which is in a private repo. When
things work as I like, I then refactor patches from the sloppy branch
into a feature branch (I have a catch-all features branch for stuff
that is small and unlikely to make it into upstream). Each commit into
a feature branch can be clean -- and then merged forward into the
integration branch immediately.
This way, all th cruft lies in the sloppy branch, which I then
dump.
manoj
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