Using git for patch management in Fedora

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> Several packages are using git for patch management.  eg:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/erlang.git/tree/erlang.spec#n46
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/libguestfs.spec?h=f20#n22
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qemu.git/tree/
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ocaml.git/tree/ocaml.spec#n16

Ewww, we need packaging guidelines banning this bizarre practice.

I can see using git-am if you're backporting upstream patches from upstream
git (though patch and thus %patchN is usually good enough for that, too),
but for Fedora-specific patches, it's really the wrong tool for the job.

> Some of these packages have invented home-brewed methods to generate
> the Patch lines in the spec file, eg:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/erlang.git/tree/otp-get-patches.sh
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/copy-patches.sh?h=f20

Ewww! Yuck!

        Kevin Kofler