Dear Guido,

It is quite easy to forget to use --pristine-tar when git-importing a
new original tarball. How about having this option set by default if
the pristine-tar branch already exists?

Have a nice day,

That makes sense. You can simply add pristine-tar = True to your
~/.gbp.conf to not forget it until this is implemented.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

Hi,

in addition to making git-buildpackage autodetect the pristine-tar branch, I'd
like to see this in gbp-clone as well. I've put the the pristine-tar option in
debian/gbp.conf inside the repository itself (which is, IMHO, slightly better
than ~/.gbp.conf, since it works for anyone who clones the repository instead
of just for you).

However, I had some problems setting things up with my sponsor since we didn't
realise he needed to pass --pristine-tar to gbp-clone as well.

I guess git-import-orig and git-import-dsc should support this autodetection
as well. If that happens, there is no more need to put the pristine-tar option
in debian/gbp.conf anymore, you then only need to pass it to the initial
import.

Finally, I guess the pristine-tar option on all commands should become
trinary, so that the default is "auto" and it can be switched to "yes" or "no"
(if it stays binary, there is no way to distinguish between the case "no
option passed" or "--no-pristine-tar passed").

Gr.

Matthijs

Hi,

FTR this messes with anyone who doesn't have the setting.  I've just did couple
of upload of tiny-html5 scratching my head why they are all rejected before
realizing that the other maintainer had not created debian/gbp.conf, but has
~/.gbp.conf setting.

I am not sure if the "by default" thing is the right thing to do, but having gbp
buildpackage (*) print a warning if --pristine-tar is not used, but
"pristine-tar" branch is present would save me some time.

Anyway, thank you very much for this useful tool.  Debian packaging would be
much harder without it.

Cheers,
Ondrej

* - well, all the sub-tools that consume --pristine-tar

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