On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:22:15PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.6.27 > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: bcn2015 > Control: block 636482 by -1 > Control: affects -1 + pkg-perl-tools gitpkg > > Dear GBP Maintainer(s), > > it would be nice, if "gbp pull" would also fetch git notes. They're in > no branch, you need to fetch "refs/notes/commits". > > Background is that there's a feature request with patch by Niko Tyni > open against git-debcherry (from the gitpkg package) which makes it use > git notes. See https://bugs.debian.org/784159 for details about that. > > Another reason to support pulling git notes is > https://bugs.debian.org/636482 (git-buildpackage: Please support git > note for changelog generation) by Alexander Wirt which will be less > useful without support for getting those notes from the remote > repository. > > We (the Debian Perl Team) recently pushed a change to "dpt push" (which > is in the package pkg-perl-tools and kind of the opposite of "gbp pull") > to support git notes when pushing: http://deb.li/3is24
The request is perfectly valid. Hope to get around to add this soonish. As usual: any patches for this are welcome! "gbp pull" is one of the rather undermaintained commands since I'm not using it often myself. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
