moving iceweasel to git

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:24:06PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:32:33AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > > rebasing is a big problem with shared git repositories. I think we can
> > > > come up with ways to list our patches even if they are applied to a
> > > > regularly merged branch.
> > > 
> > > How?
> > > 
> > > Actually I don't really think its a big problem to rebase if you have
> > > a small set of maintainers that know what to do. People outside of
> > > this group probably can just clone whenever they want and don't really
> > > care on whether the branch is regularaly rebased or not.
> > 
> > I think such an approach would become a PITA after just a few rebase
> > rounds. But YMMV.
> 
> Using StGit would probably be better than rebasing.
> 

With StGit you would need to rebase on new upstream releases as well.

 - Alexander