Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

[clime]

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> In the rare occasion that I need to make downstream-only changes with
> patches, I usually just explode the upstream tarball, run "git init",
> then "git add .", "git commit -m import", apply my changes, and then
> do "git diff --patch > ../00-my-changes.patch" (if it's just one
> commit), or "git format-patch -o ../" if there are multiple commits,
> and then delete the exploded sources again.

In any case, I think this functionality could be included in rpkg/fedpkg...?

If there are no objections, I will open a ticket for this.

Maybe also something from
https://pagure.io/glibc-maintainer-scripts/blob/master/f/glibc-sync-upstream...
could be included too?