Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

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Dne 05. 05. 20 v 18:37 Fabio Valentini napsal(a):
> So, in my experience, source-git might be a workable solution for
> packages with *big* downstream modifications. 

Big +1. Been there, done that (with Tito).

> In the rare occasion that I need to make downstream-only changes with
> patches, I usually just explode the upstream tarball, run "git init",
> then "git add .", "git commit -m import", apply my changes, and then
> do "git diff --patch > ../00-my-changes.patch" (if it's just one
> commit), or "git format-patch -o ../" if there are multiple commits,
> and then delete the exploded sources again.

When I am forced to do this, I quite often spend a lot of time at resolving conflicts. I can easily spend half of the
day on it. While when I am working with source-git I spent like 30 seconds on whole release process.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Associate Manager ABRT/Copr, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
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