Mer/Build/UsingGitorious

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Packaging

The Mer DVCS packaging process looks like this:

An upstream package is unpacked and the debian/ directory is removed. It is then commited onto the upstream branch.

pristine-tar is used to ensure that the upstream tarball can be recreated perfectly.

master is the main branch and the only non-merge commits directly on this branch should be packaging-based and in debian/

All features or bug fixes are broken out to additional branches; 1 branch per feature or fix. The main difference is that features are not likely to go upstream whilst fixes are. This is very similar to quilt.

Developing

Development of a feature is done by cloning master; then branching locally and developing against master.

Once development is complete a new feature branch is created and the development branch is then cherry-picked onto the new feature branch.

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