Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:02:59PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
>> Actually most users of pristine-tar in git don't have the *first* of >> these branches. They usually have an upstream branch which is >> synthesized solely from importing tarballs using git import-orig. In >> other words, the typical practice is to avoid sharing git history with >> the upstream VCS, which in turn works out very well for git-dch, >> because you don't get unnecessary upstream changes documented in >> debian/changelog. > This seems utterly broken to me and optimized for the wrong priority. It makes perfect sense if you're packaging software where upstream doesn't use a DVCS, which I'll point out is still the most common case. :) > I cannot imagine why anyone would endure git's user interface and then > not even use the DVCS functionality for collaboration with upstream. I've used both Git and bzr for real-world projects and found Git's user interface significantly superior to bzr's, which is why I've since converted all of my bzr projects to Git. YMMV. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
