Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.4.20~bpo40+1 Severity: wishlist When importing internal packages into git I occasionally ran into failures like the following:
$ git-import-dsc foobar_0.0.20040915-14.dsc
Upstream version: 0.0.20040915
Debian version: 14
No git repository found, creating one.
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
fatal: pathspec '' did not match any files
git returned 128
Couldn't add files
Creation of git repository failed
$
Three hours of debugging later I finally found the reason in an empty
"upstream" tarball like
-rw-r--r-- 1 cbiedl cbiedl 137 Oct 26 2004 foobar_0.0.20041026.orig.tar.gz
git-import-dsc will unpack this ball and run "git init-db" and "git
add ." in the temporary directory. The latter fails since git cannot
handle an empty directory.
While this is probably not the best style of package development,
git-import-dsc should still catch this situation. So _if_ the
temporary directory is empty after unpacking, git-import-dsc could
either
* call git-add in a better way (if possible, I still don't know enough
about git's possibilities), or
* create a placeholder file to make git-add happy (and tell the user
about it), for safety reasons this would happen only after an
according option was given, or
* abort with a helpful error message.
Personally I'd prefer the second solution. For the time being I have
to patch the placeholder into the tarball and update .dsc. This is
rather painful.
If you think the whole situation does not deserve that attention, please
document that behaviour in the manpage so other people will save the
time I lost when tracking down the problem.
Christoph
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