Package: git-buildpackage
Version: 0.3.2
Severity: minor
Hi,
git-import-orig will only work when called from a Git repository. I
personally understand it's contract as "do the relevant things when you
want to import an upstream tarball into a git-managed Debian package",
and it fits well in that role.
git-import-dsc will ignore completely the git repository if it's called
from a git repository, and will instead create a $source subdirectory,
a git repository within, import the tarball just like git-import-orig
does, import the diff. I found this behavior surprizing as I naturally
imaginated the contract of git-import-dsc as "do the relevant things
when you want to import a .dsc and everything it refers to into a
git-managed Debian package". It seems its contract is more "I now want
to manage this package using git starting with this .dsc, please
prepare me anything I need".
I would prefer it if git-import-dsc would behave similarly to
git-import-orig, i.e.:
- either a) both commands try to import stuff into the current
directory and fail if it's not a git repo OR b) both commands expect
to work on the git repo below the $source subdirectory
- either a) both commands create the git repo OR b) both commands
fail when the git repo doesn't exist
If you ask me, I'd better see "import" commands fail when a git repo in
the current dir doesn't exist and use it otherwise.
If you wanted to offer an easy way to create new git repos to manage
Debian packages, perhaps this should be a separate command instead, for
example git-init-package, perhaps with optional --from-dsc and
--from-orig? This might be the occasion to create a .git/gbp.conf with
the arguments passed to git-init-package.
I personally wouldn't need such a command, and I would like to use the
workflow: git-init, git-import-orig, git-import-dsc, git-import-dsc.
Bye,
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ii git-core 1:1.5.2.3-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 0.6.4 automated rebuilding support for p
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Loïc Minier
