Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Bug#972098: dgit assumes 'master' as main 
branch"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 9.12
> Severity: important
...
> on various packaging repositories I routinely use dgit on, it has started to
> fail on me with the following error:

This is odd.  dgit doesn't normally care much about branches.

>     $ dgit pbuilder
>     Format `3.0 (quilt)', need to check/update patch stack
>     examining quilt state (multiple patches, linear mode)
>     gzip: warning: GZIP environment variable is deprecated; use an alias or 
> script
>     dgit: base trees orig=cfd69559157d8cae3e6d o+d/p=08391389eaf6c31ab9dc
>     dgit: quilt differences: src:  ## orig ##     gitignores:  == orig ==
>     dgit: quilt differences:      HEAD == o+d/p               HEAD == o+d/p
>     starting quiltify (multiple patches, linear mode)
>     quiltify linearisation planning successful, executing...
>     error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git
>     dgit: failed command: git checkout -q master
>     
>     dgit: error: subprocess failed with error exit status 1
> 
> Specifically, I'm running this dgit * command from a debian/master branch (I
> will move to debian/main or debian/sid soon), with only the other branches
> being upstream/latest and pristine-tar. I don't have a master branch in these
> repositories at all.

Can you please run the command again with (let's say) -DD ?

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