On Jan 3, 2016 5:35 AM, "Brad Bell" <bradbell@seanet.com> wrote:
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> Recently, epel7 was added to the pkgdb
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>     3. Should I just copy or git merge files from the master branch to epel7 ?

As said above, you can use almost all Git power and work with them as with trivial Git branches. Fedpkg also provides some Git sugar [1,2].

Forced commit push into package repos is disabled by default, and isn't needed in most cases (although can be enabled per package by asking rel-eng team).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Update_Your_Branches_.28if_desired.29

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wbr, Denis.