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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] subtree/Makefile: Standardize (esp. for packagers)
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 14:22:48 -0500
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James Denholm wrote:
> Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:35:13PM +1000, James Denholm wrote:
> >> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Agreed.  It also doesn't help that when subtree patches are proposed
> > (especially new features instead of obvious bugs), there often seems
> > to be little or no feedback from anyone.
> >
> > --------
> > Depending on how much time you have:
> >
> > This may be outside the scope of work you were planning on,
> 
> While current, immediate focus is really just getting the makefile fixed
> up and hopefully then have more people package subtree by default,
> overall I'll very likely extend that to general work on subtree and such.

I think you should take a look at the Makefile of
contrib/remote-helpers. I bet something simple like that would work just
fine for subtree.

-- 
Felipe Contreras