1 motivation

what is version control system

 use it to review code, maintain diffs from upstream, do merges, etc.

 but also publication tool

Debian has for VCSs

 for development by maintainers

   lots of people using lots of different vcs
   many (?) most contributors using git somehow

 for publication

   the Debian archive

   yes, it's a vcs, but it's terrible

what was missing: a unified publication system for git histories which
contain the same things as the archive

that is what dgit is



3 why x-vcs-git is not sufficient

   tree you get might be arbitrarily strange
     - patches unapplied
     - debian/ only
     - maintainer's "special stuff"

  SO dgit /is/ in some sense a replacement for debcheckout

  compared to debcheckout
   - always gives you the version that is in the archive
   - always gives you the same kind of tree, rather than giving
     you the maintainer's git tree (might be strange)
   - you can push!


4 example workflows



wrinkles

gitignore
autogenerated files




    all NMUers/sponsors/etc. who like git



   everyone!

 one common


why not x-vcs-git



coming soon