-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/2010 08:30 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > Every one who is use a git everyday knows that it has support of > joining several repositories in one local repository (especially if it > has a common base). I would use such feature for packages hosted in > git repositories. > So, the idea is to keep 2-in-1: > - Fedora's git as a holder and main repository > - upstream/* branches for an upstream sources (real package sources) > > Advantages are in keeping things together and simplify maintaining > packages in Fedora with upstreamed patches (commits). > It also reminds the Debian's scheme where the repository contains two > branches and two kind of tags accordingly. > > Any suggestions or improvements to this scheme? > I've been meaning to explore this path a bit, and add tooling in fedpkg to set it up initially. My first feeling is that it'd be a configuration that lives on your workstation, in your clone, not something pushed up to pkgs.fp.o. It would certainly help in getting patches to/from upstream, and help when we start exploring automated patch management within packages. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyOoy0ACgkQ4v2HLvE71NWQXwCghuLl+PV0iRTIYzD+oLzvvAs9 LtwAn0QypwdUHtGocsVmi172HiyNwB2y =zin2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
