On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:18:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Robie Basak writes ("Re: "git ubuntu" wrappers [was: What to do with .git
> directories in source package uploads?]"):
> > I disagree here. We don't need to "hope". I don't expect the build to
> > see the importer's git history. It
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:04:46PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> 1. The imported git trees are defined to escape /^\.git.*/ by
> prepending a '.'.
It just occurred to me that this would also escape '.gitignore' to
'..gitignore', which personally I'd like, but others might find
surprising. So
Robie Basak writes ("Re: "git ubuntu" wrappers [was: What to do with .git
directories in source package uploads?]"):
> I disagree here. We don't need to "hope". I don't expect the build to
> see the importer's git history. It should be invisible to the build
> process, and I intend to make our
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 05:46:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Again, I don't follow why `fail' occurs. You seem to be suggesting
> that importing a .dsc containing a .git would generate ..git.
Correct. I'm suggesting "fail" for the round-tripping - for "git ubuntu
build-source" to "unescape"
Robie Basak writes ("Re: "git ubuntu" wrappers [was: What to do with .git
directories in source package uploads?]"):
> I don't really follow what you're saying. Are you saying that wrapping
> these types of things in general is bad, or that having a wrapper for
> the specific case of unescaping
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:57:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> `dgit clone' disables these .gitattributes; provides a separate verb
> for disabling them in other trees; and `dgit fetch' warns about them
> if it finds them.
So...you have a wrapper?
I don't really follow what you're saying. Are
Robie Basak writes (""git ubuntu" wrappers [was: What to do with .git
directories in source package uploads?]"):
> Some examples:
>
> Upstreams that ship .gitignore confuses distribution developers (IMHO)
> who want to see *everything* that has changed. I'd like to work with git
> upstream in
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:31:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Robie Basak writes ("Re: What to do with .git directories in source package
> uploads?"):
> > In mitigation, we have "build" and "build-source" wrappers that could
> > always do the correct unescaping here. Then you'd only fall into
