On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:56:03PM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Hello, > > I believe I can reproduce this problem. > > What I was doing is try to create a git packaging history for the three > releases of jitsi that made it into Debian so far. I had previously > made a repo of some of the packages from mentors.d.n and had made some > commits to improve the packaging. Therefore, I did not want to loose > those commits while otherwise essentially restarting from scratch. > > I renamed the master and debian branch, dropped the pristine-tar branch > and then went ahead to import the dsc files. Thus, the repo had no > debian or master branch when I started to run the import command. At > the time, I was on a local branch called wip. Even though I used > --create-missing-branches, only upstream branch was successfully > created. When it was the turn for the debian branch I got the error > "gbp:error: Git command failed: revision 'master' not found". I again > deleted the master and debian branch and the one tag for upstream. > Before repeating the process of importation this time after reading > Björn's excellent comments I did a "git checkout --orphan master" and > then git-import-dsc. This time, things went smoothly. > > FWIW, I am using 1:1.7.9.5-1 on Ubuntu precise. Thank you for your > consideration.
Was this with 0.6.10? We made some changes in this area in that release. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
