Bug#848193: Want "dgit clone RUNNING" or some such

[Michael Stapelberg]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Ian Jackson
 wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#848193: Want "dgit clone  RUNNING" or some 
> such"):
>> On Sat, Oct 21 2017, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>> > Shameless plug: I just released pk4, see
>> > https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2017/10/21/pk4.html, which
>> > covers a large fraction of the described use-case, IIUC.
>>
>> Cool!
>
> Excellent.  Yes, these tools should be combined.
>
> Thinking about it briefly, I think the obvious possible UIs are:

Thanks for the suggestions. Thoughts inline:

>
> 1a. dgit clone pk4:

This seems fine to me, and I suggest we go with this option.

>
> 1b. dgit does that automatically if pk4 is installed

This seems a bit too magic to my taste. If people prefer 1b over 1a,
perhaps a fallback could be used instead, with a clear error message
such as “ not found. Try installing the pk4 Debian
package to have dgit fall back to resolving via pk4.”?

>
> 2. pk4 --dgit 

This is the least desirable option to me, because it would mean that
pk4 needs to integrate with every packaging tool (gbp has also
declared interest), and I think it would be more elegant if we could
do it the other way around.

>
> Opinions ?
>
> Whatever is done, the result should be documented in dgit-user(7).
>
> Regards,
> Ian.



-- 
Best regards,
Michael