[Pkg-octave-devel] Restoring branches on octave-symbolic :-(

Thomas Weber tweber at debian.org
Thu Jan 6 22:17:31 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:26:02PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 4 January 2011 16:08, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:45:53PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >> On 4 January 2011 15:24, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:59:22PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >> >> On 3 January 2011 13:39, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> >> >> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:28:36PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >> >> >> I carelessly did "git push --mirror" in the octave-symbolic repo, and
> >> >> >> I thought all it would do was push all of my branches. Unfortunately,
> >> >> >> it also removed all of the branches I hadn't clone locally. Does
> >> >> >> someone have them and is able to push them?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I don't think the octave-symbolic repo had any branches other than
> >> >> > 'master'.
> >> >>
> >> >> It had a branch for each release. They sort of are still there,
> >> >> somewhere in the reflog, I think. But whatever, I guess they're not a
> >> >> big deal, just there for historicity purposes.
> >> >
> >> > Okay, I just updated. What we have now is the complete upstream source
> >> > code. I'm going to remove this now.
> >>
> >> Wait, wait, why?
> >>
> >> I worked hard to get the upstream source into the package. It's much
> >> nicer to work that way.
> >
> > Release-managers will *never* accept such a change so late in the
> > release cycle.
> 
> I asked around in IRC and they said it was still possible to get the
> package back into squeeze if I had an unstable upload.

Yes, with a small change, not a complete change of packaging style. RM
review the actuall changes -- several hundred lines of diff is not what
they can review.

Anyway, I've uploaded a package that should fix the issue with rev6293
as patch. I've tried every example in #607071 and everything worked.

I'm not sure how to merge that with the stuff already on alioth, but we
can sort that out later.

	Thomas



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