On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 12:13 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:08:46 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > This seems increasingly important - without this change we will have to
> > blow away some of the current branches including their history , when
> > import branches start being supported and we start importing from the
> > original branch rather than creating one based on the packages in the
> > archive.
>
> Is this for code imports?
Code imports for those Debian packaging branches that are maintained in
Git/CVS/Subversion/Mercurial and mirrors for the branches maintained in
Bazaar natively.
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 12:13 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:08:46 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > This seems increasingly important - without this change we will have to
> > blow away some of the current branches including their history , when
> > import branches start being supported and we start importing from the
> > original branch rather than creating one based on the packages in the
> > archive.
>
> Is this for code imports?
Code imports for those Debian packaging branches that are maintained in Subversion/ Mercurial and mirrors for the branches maintained in
Git/CVS/
Bazaar natively.
(See also http:// upsilon. cc/~zack/ stuff/vcs- usage/ for a graph of the
VCS'es used for the packaging branches in Debian)
Cheers,
Jelmer