Missing patches folder in vim.git

Wed May 11 01:19:24 UTC 2016

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is the intention to _not_ provide debian/patches folder in
> debian/sid branch?

So that there's not duplication of work that Git already handles.  As
noted in debian/README.source, gitpkg and its git-debcherry hook are
used to prepare the source package.  That automatically handles
exporting any commits that touch only non-debian/ files as patches.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>