Hi, On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:13:07PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:59:41 +0100 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= > <a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > My first reaction was to teach gbp import-orig to have a > > > > gbp import-orig "git-ref" > > > > mode that would do the right thing but I now think having > > > > gbp update "git-ref" > > > > that > > > > - does the excluding and tagging if necessary > > - merges to the debian branch > > > > is better. We need to make sure that gbp import-orig's filtering (using > > the --filter command line or filter= gbp.conf option) stays in sync with > > what we do so we don't have on tool using --filter= and the other one > > parsing debian/changelog. > > > > If somebody comes up with a better name than "update" that's all fine. > > Cheers, > > I would suggest `gbp import-git`, which is consistent with `import-*`
Yes, much better. > > also the "git-ref" can be parsed as an option, so we can store it in gbp.conf. > > And I suggest the `--filter` option can also be remained, when > importing from upstream git. Yes, that's what I meant to say above. > Besides, adding an option like `--filter-with-copyright` to indicate > filtering files from "Files-Excluded" in d/copyright file. That sounds good to me. Cheers -- Guido > > > -- > Shengjing Zhu >
