To sync up with debians source for inspiration you should run the following: `git remote add alioth-git git://anonscm.debian.org/d-i/debootstrap.git` `git fetch alioth-git` After that you can either cherry-pick or merge releases from debian. To merge a release, it's do: `git tag` to list the release tags and `git merge ` followed by all the fixups and then commit with an appropriate message like "Merging Release from debian" Copyright 2016 Daniel Reurich