Control: retitle -1 provide convert-from-unapplied as alias for -from-gbp
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream
fails with "uninitialized value""):
> On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 01:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > To me "unpatched" is ambiguous: it can mean that the delta queue does
> > not exist, or that it exists but has not been applied. But luckily
> > that doesn't matter ...
>
> Ah, I was missing that this ambiguity is not a problem.
IC.
> >> I.e. these would both be aliases for a command called
> >> convert-from-unapplied?
> >
> > Right. The key points are that:
> >
> > * gbp format is the same as package-with-unapplied-delta-queue
> > format, modulo .gitignore (which apparently most people don't
> > touch).
> >
> > * If there is no delta queue then the algorithm for converting a
> > package-with-unapplied-delta-queue will DTRT.
>
> Okay, let's have convert-from-unpatches be an alias for
> convert-from-gbp.
I will implement that and put something about this equivalence it in
the manpage.
> (One other option that has just occurred to me would be
> 'convert-from-pristine' since the upstream is pristine in the sense of
> being untouched by Debian.)
I think the word `pristine' is inextricably linked in Debian parlance
with pristine-tar.
Ian.
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