Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> writes: > Hi manphiz, > > Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> Hi sten, >> >> When trying to pick a new upstream to rebase, I found that pulling >> either upstream repo will result in an incompatible git history versus >> the current debian/master branch on salsa. > > This is expected, but please merge from upstream. > >> I wonder how I should handle this? > > The commit of the upstream source you import should be tagged. If > upstream hasn't made a tagged release, then you'll need to: > > 1. With a the upstream of your choice set in the watch file, "gbp > import-orig --uscan" will do the right thing in this repository. This > is one reason why a functioning watch file that defines the correct > upstream is useful. It should also save time to do this once, and > then switch to a tag merging workflow for the next upstream import. > > OR > > I. Ask upstream to tag a stable release (probably NA to GNU ELPA's > monorepo) > II. Merge that tag to either the upstream branch, or directly to the > Debian packaging branch. See the merge note at §i. > III. Do fixup work to make "git diff tag -- !(debian)" clean. > > OR > > i. Merge new upstream commit to the upstream branch (which will also > merge its history), because tags of detached HEADS behave unreliably > through remotes; ie the tag needs to be of a commit on a branch. See > git merge man page about what to about unrelated histories. > ii. Create an annotated tag in the format you defined in debian/watch > (note substitutions for special characters). I've always done this > manually with a "Tag upstream snapshot for Debian use" annotation, but > NOTE: There is probably a better way to create these tags by now. > iii. Merge your annotated tag to the Debian packaging branch. > iv. Do fixup work to make "git diff tag -- !(debian)" clean. > > In every case, you'll need to insure that the upstream tag is pushed to > Salsa. > >> Is it OK to force push to master? > > No. > > Best, > Nicholas >
Thanks Nicholas, David! I found that "git merge upstream/externals/muse --allow-unrelated-histories" did what I wanted. However, as this merged pulled in the whole history of upstream repo it now has 1000+ commits since the current debian/master. To be cautious, I have created a merge request[1] which also has the packaging updates to the latest head. PTAL. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/muse-el/-/merge_requests/4 -- Manphiz
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