[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Converting repository to git

[Platonides]

On 15/10/12 18:10, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> TL,DR: my recent reorganisation had an ulterior motive, which is "let's
> follow upstream to git!"
>
> With MW upstream now in git it does make sense (to me at least) to
> follow them, if nothing else to make cherry-picking more
> straightforward. It's kind of a pain at the moment. I see no reason to
> force MW-e to follow suit though; I envisage using git sub-modules for
> this so we can bring MW-e across when you're ready.


I think I already mentioned the idea, but let me repeat it. If a branch
(family) on the upstream repository would help you, I'm all for giving
you that.

I would like to see all downstreams in the same repository where from
the latest release there is a distributor branch (with common patches
like mimetypes.patch) from which all distributions would branch (the
folders with the different metadata for deb, rpm...).

The main difference with the current approach would be having the
patches as full revisions (instead of as patches in separate files), but
that would allow a better usage of the VCS and seems already to be your
intention [cherry-pick/merge between branches (from master to debian,
between distributors and also from distro patches to upstream)].


So, if you want to follow us to our home, you're welcome!