On 29 October 2014 05:39, Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:17:49PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Brian May writes ("Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging >> repositories"): >> > However, with git-dpm, no branch is ever destroyed. Every branch is always >> > merged into the Debian branch. The Debian branch itself always heads in a >> > single forward direction and this branch is never rebased. Furthermore, >> > because this is a pseudo-standard, everything can expect this is what will >> > happen. >> > >> > See http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ for details. >> >> I have an experimental version of dgit (not yet uploaded anywhere) >> which handles .pc differently: the dgit git tree does not contain .pc. >> I wrote some (frankly quite terrifying) code to reconstruct a .pc from >> the artifacts available to dgit (mainly debian/patches and ../*orig*). >> >> I used my new dgit to clone xwit (since that's listed as the example >> in the git-dpm page) and the dgit git tree for 3.4-15 is almost >> identical to that at the alioth tag debian-3.4-15. There is one >> difference: dgit's tree does not contain .gitignore. I don't think >> the lack of .gitignore is important for git-dpm users. (Arguably it's >> a bug that git-buildpackage et al remove it.) > > At which step does gbp remove .gitignore? It shouldn't and it doesn't > over here.
dpkg-source removes it, by default, for 3.0 based formats as it's part of the default ignore list. (or rather ignores it) $ apt-get source hello $ cd hello-* $ cat debian/source/format 3.0 (quilt) $ git init $ echo "*.a" > .gitignore $ git add . $ git commit -m "initial" $ debuild -S $ dpkg-source -x ../hello*.dsc $ cat hello-*/.gitignore ls: cannot access hello-2.8/.gitignore: No such file or directory Ideally "packaging .gitignore" would be in debian/gitignore, but I don't know if that will work. This is a problem, because it breaks the round-trip guarantees between dgit, git, dsc. That is, unpacking source package does not re-create matching git tree sha. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUitoVvbS1Be1c5wSq+nPWZ4JJ=Rj-jG=cpjbkf399r...@mail.gmail.com