RE : Why creating branches for debian and gentoo

Mon Aug 24 14:03:22 UTC 2009

Hello

> What's the use of creating branches for debian and gentoo, that will
> only differ from the master branch by adding a debian and gentoo directory.

1) The debian and gentoo packaging do not pollute the master branch.
2) that way the debian and gentoo branch history can be indepedant of the master one.
usually there is n>=1 version of a debian package for a given version of the upstream package.

> I don't quite understand.

do you understand now ?

Frederic

PS: this is how most debian packages using git are organized.