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<h1>Packaging Workflow with Git-Stuff</h1>

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<h2><a name="toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>

<ol>
	<li><a href="#definitions">Definitions</a></li>
	<li><a href="#prepartations">Preparations</a></li>
	<li><a href="#new-package">Handling new packages</a></li>
	<li><a href="#existing-package">Handling existing package</a></li>
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<h2><a name="definitions">1. Definitions</a></h2>

<ul>
	<li><red><b>package:</b></red> name of the source package of your program</li>
	<li><red><b>revision:</b></red> debian version string</li>
	<li><red><b>version:</b></red> upstream version string</li>
</ul>

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<h2><a name="preparations">2 Preparations</a></h2>

<ul>
	<li>Install git
	<pre><b># apt-get install git</b></pre></li>

	<li>Install git-stuff
	<pre><b># apt-get install git-stuff</b></pre>
	</li>

	<li>Install pristine-tar
	<pre><b># apt-get install pristine-tar</b></pre>
	</li>

	<li>Install git-buildpackage
	<pre><b># apt-get install git-buildpackage</b></pre>
	</li>
</ul>

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<h2><a name="new-package">3 Handling new packages</a></h2>

<h3><a name="upstream-tarball">3.1 Preparing upstream tarball</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Download upstream source tarball.</li>

	<li>Rename it to <code><b><red><i>package</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></code>.</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="git-repository">3.2 Preparing git repository</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Create the repository directory
	<pre><b>$ mkdir <red><i>program</i></red>
$ cd <red><i>program</i></red></b></pre></li>

	<li>Unpack upstream sources into the directory.</li>
	<!-- FIXME: <pre><b>$ tar xfz ../<red><i>program</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></pre></li> -->

	<li>Import upstream into git
	<pre><b>$ git-upstream-add <code><red><i>version</i></red></code></b></pre></li>

	<li>Import pristine-tar delta
	<pre><b>$ git-upstream-tar ../<red><i>program</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></pre></li>

	<li>Create and switch to debian branch
	<pre><b>$ git checkout -b debian</b></pre></li>

	<li>Prepare bare git repository
	<pre><b>$ cd ..
$ git clone --bare <red><i>program</i></red> <red><i>program</i></red>.git</pre></li>

	<li>Upload git repository to server
	<pre><b>$ scp -r <red><i>program</i></red>.git <red><i>username</i></red>@<red><i>server</i></red>:~/</b></pre>
	</li>
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<h2><a name="existing-package">4. Handling existing package</a></h2>

<h3><a name="checkout">4.1 Checking out</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Checkout repository
	<pre><b>$ git clone git@<red><i>server</i></red>:<red><i>path</i></red>/<red><i>package</i></red>.git</b></pre></li>

	<li>Checkout branches
	<pre><b>$ cd <red><i>package</i></red>

$ git-checkout-branches</b></pre></li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="checkin">4.2 Checking in</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Make sure that you are on the debian branch
	<pre><b>$ cd <red><i>package</i></red>

$ git checkout debian</b></pre></li>

	<li>Do your modifications on the package here. Remeber to <b><u>not</u></b> touch debian/changelog at all, it will be later automatically generated from the git log.</li>

	<li>Commit changes
	<pre><b>$ git commit -a -m "<red><i>My commit message.</i></red>"</b></pre></li>

	<li>After a bunch of commits, you push changes
	<pre><b>$ git push</b></pre></li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="upstream">4.3 Adding new Upstream version</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Make sure that you are on the upstream branch
	<pre><b>$ cd <red><i>package</i></red>

$ git checkout upstream</b></pre></li>

	<li>Removing current files
	<pre><b>$ rm -rf *</b></pre></li>

	<li>Unpacking new upstream sources into the git repository</li>
	<!-- FIXME: <pre><b>$ tar xfz ../<red><i>program</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></pre></li> -->

	<li>Adding files
	<pre><b>$ git-upstream-add <red><i>version</i></red></b></pre></li>

	<li>Upstream tarball
	<pre><b>$ git-upstream-tar <red>version</red> ../<red><i>package</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></pre></li>

	<li>Make sure that you are on the debian branch
	<pre><b>$ git checkout debian</b></pre></li>

	<li>Merging
	<pre><b>$ git cherry-pick -n upstream
$ git commit -a -m "Merging upstream version <red><i>version</i></red></b>."</pre></li>

	<li>Pushing
	<pre><b>$ git-push</b></pre></li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="release">4.4 Releasing new Debian version</a></h3>

<ul>
	<li>Creating changelog
	<pre><b>$ git-debian-changelog</b></pre></li>

	<li>Releasing
	<pre><b>$ git-debian-release</b></pre></li>

	<li>Pushing
	<pre><b>$ git-push</b></pre></li>

	<li>Upstream tarball
	<pre><b>$ pristine-tar checkout <red><i>package</i></red>_<red><i>version</i></red>.orig.tar.gz</b></pre></li>

	<li>Build in chroot and upload to ftp-master as usual.</li>
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