Wed 2008/Aug/06
Two things that made my day today.
First, Andrew Jorgensen packaged Meld for openSUSE 11.0, based on Pavol Rusnak's version, which makes git-mergetool awesome.
Two, Ivan Zlatev packaged git-merge-changelog (README), which makes merging ChangeLog entries surprisingly painless. You can even cherry-pick from other branches, where the ChangeLog's diff would not apply cleanly to the destination branch, and git-merge-changelog Just Works(tm) without any manual intervention. This *is* magic.
Here is a little screencast about the problem that rpm2git tries to solve (Ogg Theora, 12.5 MB):
(Screencast recorded with recordMyDesktop. Man, my voice sucks. I swear it sounded better inside my head.)
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