Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-13 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, Thanks for having a look. On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 09:59:02AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > See the attached work-in-progress patch for how far I got at this point. > Before I continue, here are two questions: > > AFAICT, the control package doesn’t allow me to do case-insensitive >

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-13 Thread Michael Stapelberg
See the attached work-in-progress patch for how far I got at this point. Before I continue, here are two questions: AFAICT, the control package doesn’t allow me to do case-insensitive lookups. Should we extend it to do that, or do we really want to insist on users capitalizing the directives

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-12 Thread Michael Stapelberg
When cloning a git repository containing Debian packaging (no matter whether you use git-clone or gbp-clone), you’ll end up with one or more branches all tracking the remote from which you cloned (e.g. alioth, or salsa). In debian-x, there is

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On 02/11/2018 02:20 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Given that it has been two weeks, I don’t think we’re going to get a > reply from debian-x :) It's not clear to me what the question is. I've also never used git-buildpackage, so may be missing context. Cheers, Julien > > I’d suggest to just

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-11 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 02:20:55PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Given that it has been two weeks, I don’t think we’re going to get a reply > from debian-x :) Agreed. > > I’d suggest to just go ahead — I can’t see why the suggested approach > wouldn’t work for debian-x, and even if they

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-02-11 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Given that it has been two weeks, I don’t think we’re going to get a reply from debian-x :) I’d suggest to just go ahead — I can’t see why the suggested approach wouldn’t work for debian-x, and even if they need something on top, it’d be easy to add that later. Guido, how do we proceed? Do you

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-01-25 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Sorry about that. Maybe it would be good to update the header of http://x.debian.net/reference/git-usage.html with up-to-date contact info, in that case :) On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting in full for debian-x@: > > Michael Stapelberg

Re: Bug#888313: please allow git remote configuration (e.g. for upstream remote)

2018-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Quoting in full for debian-x@: Michael Stapelberg (2018-01-25): > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Guido Günther wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:27:25PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > Package: git-buildpackage > > >