Simon Tatham writes ("Bug#1123834: dgit clone: placeholder suite name for local
machine?"):
> [Often], I want to start from a version of the
> package's source code which matches the package as it is actually
> installed on my machine (or, if I haven't installed it _yet_, the
> version that would be installed by the obvious 'apt install' command).
...
> I see in the man page that I can specify the suite by name, [...]
...
> But this requires me to know the name of the suite
...
> I suggest making it a magic keyword _in_ the suite name slot, rather
> than a separate option like --local, because then I could set it as the
> default behaviour via 'git config dgit.default.default-suite HERE' (or
> whatever). Then the shortest 'dgit clone' command would do the thing I
> most often want, and I could put that in my standard account-setup
> scripts, without having to remember to reset it after an OS upgrade.
Thanks. This kind of use case has been discussed before, in eg
#848193 and #877969. The hard part is deciding on the details of what
the UI and behaviour shouold be.
And, you have some interesting UI suggestions. So, thanks!
Ian.
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