Hi Jonathan, On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:46:59AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.4.68 > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: radeont...@packages.debian.org > > Hi Guido! > > I am a bit picky about avoiding tracking automatically generated > files, which results in tricks like this one to handle upstream > changelogs generated from the commit log: > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/radeontool.git;a=blob;f=debian/autogen.sh > > This abuses the ‘debian/rules clean’ target to generate or > update the upstream changelog the first time it is run. > > Unfortunately, that breaks a workflow that involves using > git archive HEAD | (cd elsewhere && tar -xf -) to create a > separate build directory, since the old .git directory is > nowhere to be found. > > Do you think git-buildpackage could be given a --git-prebuild > hook so that > > 1. I don’t have to abuse ‘debian/rules clean’ for this > any more > > 2. In the --git-export-dir case, a GBP_GIT_DIR variable > could be exported to let the hook get at some precious > information :) As far as I understand that it'd be sufficient to have the hook just in front of the actual package build command - that makes sense. Any chance you'd send a patch? -- Guido
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