Hello, On Tue 16 Jul 2024 at 03:28pm +02, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> Right, thanks for the link. That certainly is one angle of attack and I > hope someone does tackle it given how popular gbp is, but it's not the only > game in town. > > Personally I'm moving away from gbp toward the dgit patches-applied > workflows so I'd be interested in something that can work there (too?). > > A quick chat with Ian on IRC illuminates the situation: git-deborig > (dgit/t2u's equivalent of gbp-export-orig) can't directly do this as it > would break dgit's "tarball equals git exactly" invariant. > > This needs do be done as a seperate tool that commits the removals into > git. I think the same tool could also work for the gbp case unless I'm > missing something. > > If nobody has a tool like that in the works yet I may have a stab at it. > > If anyone has any spare cycles I'd also like us think about how a > full-blown git-filter-branch/-repo invocation would fit into the picture so > perhaps the interface could handle those in the future. I do a manual 'git rm', commit, and make a upstrea/foo+dfsg tag. It's not great. Automation would be nice. -- Sean Whitton
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