also sprach J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007.08.30.2149 +0200]: > Maybe the one extra "git remote add ...; git remote fetch" isn't > such a big deal? [...] > Sure, each of those could add a "linus" branch that tracked > upstream, so I could still get some idea what Linus's tree was > even if I didn't happen to already have it. But then I'd end up > with 4 different slightly-out-of-date pointers to the head of > linus's repo in each of those trees, which would end up being just > be a bunch of cruft that I'd have to ignore whenever I looked at > them. Thanks to you and everyone else who replied! I spent some time off computers and still found myself thinking about this as I was hiking around woods and mountains and in the end, it's perfectly obvious: I am trying to make it easy for third parties to contribute to my git-managed project and I (somewhat rightfully) assumed that I needed to shield my poor contributors from git's complex tentacles. In doing so, I find myself going backwards and turning git into something svn-like, thus losing much of its power. The solution is clear: maintain only my Debian branch on git.debian.org and expect those cloning it to add the upstream remote themselves in true distributed manners. A concise file in the project root with instructions is a nice add-on. also sprach Bart Trojanowski <bart@xxxxxxxxx> [2007.08.30.2227 +0200]: > Now when you 'git push debian' it will populate the 'upstream' and > 'master' branches properly. > > When someone clones your repo, they will get origin/master (your > branch) and origin/upstream (the official mdadm branch). This is the solution I had stuck in my head for the longest time (after you proposed it), but I eventually discard it for one simple reason: the danger that someone pushes to the upstream branch and thus diverges it from the real upstream is just too high and would result in a pretty nasty mess, as far as I can tell. > Did I understand the problem correctly? I think you did. And thanks for that. I hope my reasoning above also makes sense. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck "the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." -- friedrich nietzsche spamtraps: madduck.bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx
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