Guido Günther wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:10:47PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> git-buildpackage, when used with the pristine-tar option fails to generate >> an upstream >> tarball using pristine-tar if no local pristine-tar branch is available. >> >> pristine-tar however also checks remote branches. The easiest way would be >> to just call >> pristine-tar and exit if it fails, instead of depending on a local >> pristine-tar >> branch. > What do you mean by exit if it fails? Exit git-buildpackage? Can you > provide a test case? > -- Guido git-buildpackage exits if no pristine-tar branch is available. pristine-tar does work, because it looks for a branch containing pristine-tar and uses this one (if only one exists). Therefore I suggest to simply call pristine-tar and exit if pristine-tar exits with error.
See the following example:
$ git clone -q git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/readahead-list.git
$ cd readahead-list
$ git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar
$ pristine-tar checkout ../readahead-list_1.20060421.1016.orig.tar.gz
See the messages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ git clone -q
git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/readahead-list.git
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 209 objects.
remote: Deltifying 209 objects...
remote: 100% (209/209) done
remote: Total 209 (delta 111), reused 193 (delta 103)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd readahead-list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/readahead-list$ git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar
dh_testdir
rm -f build-stamp
[ ! -f Makefile ] || /usr/bin/make clean distclean
dh_clean
dh_testdir
Pristine-tar branch 'pristine-tar' not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/readahead-list$ pristine-tar checkout \
../readahead-list_1.20060421.1016.orig.tar.gz
pristine-tar: successfully generated
../readahead-list_1.20060421.1016.orig.tar.gz
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