From 9f04e19a184b812d8643b6e712bf4106648ca7bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:39:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dgit-maint-debrebase(7): drop claims about purpose of branches Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod index 7ffeaef2..a2ae3f89 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod @@ -522,10 +522,8 @@ involved in upstream development). We work with upstream tags rather than any branches, except temporary branches used to prepare patches for forwarding upstream, for example. -The thought behind this is that branches are things to which one -expects to commit, while tags are immutable points in history. From -the Debian point of the view, the upstream source is immutable. It's -our packaging to which we expect to commit. +The thought behind this is that from Debian's point of view, upstream +releases are immutable points in history, better represented by tags. =head2 The first ever dgit push -- 2.30.2