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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2017-01-26 21:02:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2017-01-26 21:02:22 -0700 |
| commit | 32ccad9239e794907b4628cb7d068ba48ec0d30e (patch) | |
| tree | 00a6f1b9c7c6ec8c5d157090ace8afd3c997f08b /bin/maintmerge | |
| parent | 1b573128ffa97f24334e9023473e7a91122ef2c4 (diff) | |
| download | dotfiles-32ccad9239e794907b4628cb7d068ba48ec0d30e.tar.gz | |
update patch header in ~/bin/maintmerge
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/maintmerge')
| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/maintmerge | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bin/maintmerge b/bin/maintmerge index 370d6f57..5e425162 100755 --- a/bin/maintmerge +++ b/bin/maintmerge @@ -30,17 +30,23 @@ echo "auto-commit" >>debian/source/options git add debian/source/options cat >debian/source/patch-header <<EOF -The Debian packaging of $source is maintained using dgit. For the -sake of an efficient workflow, Debian modifications to the upstream -source are squashed into a single diff, rather than a series of quilt -patches. To obtain a patch queue for package version 1.2.3-1: +The Debian packaging of $source is maintained in git, using the merging +workflow described in dgit-maint-merge(7). There isn't a patch +queue that can be represented as a quilt series. - # apt-get install dgit - % dgit clone $source +A detailed breakdown of the changes is available from their +canonical representation - git commits in the packaging repository. +For example, to see the changes made by the Debian maintainer in +the first upload of upstream version 1.2.3, you could use: + + % git clone https://git.dgit.debian.org/$source % cd $source % git log --oneline 1.2.3..debian/1.2.3-1 -- . ':!debian' -See dgit(1), dgit(7) and dgit-maint-merge(7) for more information. +(If you have dgit, use \`dgit clone $source\`, rather than plain \`git +clone\`.) + +A single combined diff, containing all the changes, follows. EOF git add debian/source/patch-header |