Comment 11 for bug 637286

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Guido Günther (agx) wrote : Re: [Bug 637286] Re: git-import-dsc merges to master despite --debian-branch

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:19:23PM -0000, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Is this the same problem as
>
> "cd /tmp && mkdir capifax && wget wget
> http://capifax.v3v.de/dl/capifax-0.7.3.tar.bz2 && cd capifax && git init
> && git-import-orig --pristine-tar --no-merge ../capifax-0.7.3.tar.bz2"
> which still creates the master branch and merges to it despite the call
> not to do so?
Nope. This is unrelated. In fact the issue from above is not a bug since
the _inital_ import always goes to master (the upstream branch is then
created from there). Everything else would pretty much break what's
expected from a git repo.
Cheers,
 -- Guido