Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic
mode please"):
> On Mon, Apr 23 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I tried `git-deborig' (which Sean had mentioned to me before) and it
> > didn't invoke pristine-tar at all.
>
> Yes. I think that git-deborig and pristine-tar are orthogonal --
> pristine-tar is when you care about having the tarball with precisely
> the same checksum, whereas git-deborig is for when it's git tags that
> are authoritative.
>
> origtargz is "a tarball has been settled on for this upload, get it for
> me please."
I have just read the manpage for origtargz.
I don't think origtargz is good for my usecase because it's too
automatic. In particular, if I know I want to use a local
pristine-tar branch I don't want a command which might download
something from the network.
> pristine-tar is one way of settling on that tarball.
>
> git-deborig is "my git tree is right, please give me a tarball because
> the Debian archive works that way."
git-deborig was more what I wanted. I wouldn't have minded
having to ask `git-deborig --pristine-tar'.
> I think you probably want to file a bug against devscripts, too, in that
> case.
Let's finish the conversation and then I'll do some bug gardening.
Thanks,
Ian.
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