[arch-dev-public] making a devtools release

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 1 13:46:44 EDT 2009


Allan McRae wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>>     At least two are not yet, but I have them on a local working 
>>>> branch:
>>>> - makechrootpkg: fixed copying of .install file to chroot for split 
>>>> packages
>>>> - devtools: clean up of commitpkg
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if there are any others that I missed.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> These are the only ones that haven't been commited yet.
>>>   
>>
>> Great - I will push those when I get home from the office.
>
> All pushed now. 
> @Eric: you should look into creating git format patches.  It makes 
> applying them much easier (especially keeping attribution data - I 
> didn't know how to keep you as the author so I added a Patch-by line).

And astute reader has very quickly informed me I could use the --author 
flag on "git commit" after applying with "git apply" so this will not 
happen next time.   Still git format patches are easier....

Allan







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