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| author | Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> | 2009-11-03 22:04:36 +0900 |
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| committer | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2009-11-05 20:51:08 +0100 |
| commit | 509c1c3a1e58f3484317e578138d88ff6e56cd06 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cee367938928583e8e6d0b2988a7f0c5db6cdd8 | |
| parent | 9960f2415c8332a594aa6f4d94d6f7763f5650b4 (diff) | |
Stefano Zacchiroli’s workaround for creating empty upstream branches.
(See ‘http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471560’)
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/chapters/import.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/chapters/import.sgml b/docs/chapters/import.sgml index 521cc2f9..429f9f11 100644 --- a/docs/chapters/import.sgml +++ b/docs/chapters/import.sgml @@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ EOF url="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GraftPoint">grafts</ulink>. Afterwards you can simply create a branch as explained above and &git-import-orig; will work as expected.</para> + <para>Alternatively, if you are only importing source from original tarballs + (for instance when converting from a Subversion repository where the + mergeWithUpstream was set for svn-buildpackage), you can create an empty + upstream branch with the following commands: +<screen> + git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/upstream + git rm --cached -r . + git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial upstream branch.' + git checkout -f master +</screen> + </para> </sect2> </sect1> |