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=== git-series: track changes to a patch series over time ===

Josh Triplett [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00535.html|announced]] a new git tool, [[https://github.com/git-series/git-series/|git-series]], to manage patch series with git, tracking
the "history of history". git series tracks changes to the patch series
over time, including rebases and other non-fast-forwarding changes. git
series also tracks a cover letter for the patch series, formats the
series for email, and prepares pull requests.

This makes it easier to collaborate on a patch series, distribution
package, backport, or any other development process that includes
rebasing or non-fast-forward development.

Debian package maintenance tends to have this exact family of problems: maintaining a set of patches to upstream code, rebasing those patches on new upstream versions, reorganizing/refining/adding/dropping patches, having individual patches merged upstream, and backporting changes *from* upstream.

If you're interested in developing workflows for package maintenance with git-series, please follow up to debian-devel.

-- Josh Triplett

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git-series: track changes to a patch series over time

Josh Triplett announced a new git tool, git-series, to manage patch series with git, tracking the "history of history". git series tracks changes to the patch series over time, including rebases and other non-fast-forwarding changes. git series also tracks a cover letter for the patch series, formats the series for email, and prepares pull requests.

This makes it easier to collaborate on a patch series, distribution package, backport, or any other development process that includes rebasing or non-fast-forward development.

Debian package maintenance tends to have this exact family of problems: maintaining a set of patches to upstream code, rebasing those patches on new upstream versions, reorganizing/refining/adding/dropping patches, having individual patches merged upstream, and backporting changes *from* upstream.

If you're interested in developing workflows for package maintenance with git-series, please follow up to debian-devel.

-- Josh Triplett

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