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 you saying that wrapping these types of things in general is bad, or that having a wrapper for the specific case of unescaping .git is bad? For the latter, I think that safe round-tripping is an important property of an importer and that ditching this property shouldn't be taken lightly. I'm applying this principle in making design decisions that we can't easily change later, such as the imported "format". OTOH, I wouldn't consider it to be a high priority to actually implement, and a default of failing if ..git exists would be perfectly acceptable for this extreme edge case. We could require the user to tell us exactly what is required (drop or unescape) when rebuilding the source package. Though then we'd probably need a "batch mode" that would probably default to unescape to avoid creating a minefield of edge cases for script writers. Robie
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