The upstream repository:
git remote add libvdpau git://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau
git fetch --all --prune
Importing a new upstream tarball:
The tarball contains all the autotools generated files that we don't need
in the master branch thanks to dh_autoreconf.
VER=0.7
git-import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag libvdpau-$VER libvdpau-$VER.tar.bz2
Merge the new upstream release:
git checkout upstream
git merge --ff-only libvdpau-$VER^{commit}
git tag -m "Upstream version $VER" upstream/$VER libvdpau-$VER^{commit}
git checkout master
git merge upstream/$VER
Pushing to origin:
git push origin libvdpau-$VER tarball pristine-tar tarball/$VER upstream upstream/$VER master
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