[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Migrating some repositories to Git

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:
> * Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> [2009-04-30 08:50]:
>
>> I very strongly suggest to use git-buildpackage and store the upstream
>> source in the git repository itself, and use pristine-tar. I will do
>> that for my packages, if all the other uploaders agree. The big
>> advantage of this approach is that creating Debian specific patches is
>> super easy --- you just change the files in the "debian" branch.
>> Thanks to git, you can always easily merge the patches if new upstream
>> is released. No need to hassle with the debian/patches directory.
>
> What does this mean?  Do the patches always end up in the .diff.gz?

Yes. Documentation is here:

http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.html

Ondrej