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Note to Self

If you use github.com to host your projects these are two things to remember:

• if you want a download url that is different from http://github.com/$user/$proj/tarball/master you can create a tag in your repo, push it to github and enjoy and new link in the download tab. Then you can download your project as http://github.com/$user/$proj/tarball/0.1 where 0.1 is the tag.

I've packaged latexdiff for debian, that is a small utility to generate latex files with revision markers from multiple versions of the same file. While packaging this utility I've learned about two very nice tools to help the debian maintainers: git-buildpackage and topgit.

Regarding git-buildpackage there is an extensive manual that should get you started :
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.html

Topgit documentation is a bit sparse. tg help should guide you for syntax. The README file in the tg distribution is full of examples.