Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1108378: git-debpush: should warn for superfluous
quilt mode option on command line"):
> If the user supplies a quilt mode option that's the same as what we
> would have detected from the previous upload, we should warn them that
> it's superfluous, in order to encourage people to use plain
> 'git debpush'.
By "warn" I think you mean "print a message to stderr".
This sounds plausible to me as a UX improvement.
But implementing this may be nontrivial. quilt mode archaeology is
complex, and currently it is allowed to crash whenever it can't figure
things out. I think this proposal involves distinguishing "something
is unexpected about the git structure which means that we cannot
determine the quilt mode automatically" from "something is seriously
wrong and we should crash even if the user specified --quilt".
Ian.
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