From: Sean Whitton Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:39:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: dgit-maint-debrebase(7): drop claims about purpose of branches X-Git-Tag: archive/debian/5.0~6^2~15 X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f04e19a184b812d8643b6e712bf4106648ca7bf dgit-maint-debrebase(7): drop claims about purpose of branches Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- 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