Package: dgit Version: 8.3 Severity: minor Hello,
Since 8.3 dgit will error out if there are untracked files, and make the
following suggestion:
dgit: error: tree contains uncommited, untracked, unignored files
dgit: You can use --clean=git[-ff],always (-wga/-wgfa) to delete them.
... to which a user might reasonably respond "but I want to keep them!"
dgit could say instead:
dgit: error: tree contains uncommited, untracked, unignored files
dgit: You can use --clean=git[-ff],always (-wga/-wgfa) to delete them,
dgit: or --clean=none --include-dirty to include them in the build.
This might cause the user to run into the error message reported in
#914317, so I wonder whether dgit should only do this in the case that
there are no untracked files under d/patches or the source format isn't
3.0 (quilt)? Or maybe it should just refer to the docs for
--include-dirty, assuming you like my patch in #930922?
A third possibility is recommending that the user stage the files and
then just --include-dirty should be sufficient.
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Sean Whitton
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