Not all packages are maintained in git; it would be nice to have a
--no-git option which simply performs the changes to the local
package directory instead.

Cheers,
        Moritz

I second this request.

Merely making the changes and running 'dch -i -n' would be enough to produce a debdiff against the previous release and attached it to a bug report for the maintainer's consideration.

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Greetings,

I'm just curious to hear if any progress is being made on this item?

Martin-Éric

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So I would like to support git-less operation in lintian-brush.

That said, this isn't trivial; the current code intentionally uses git to be
able to track what changes lintian-brush fixers have made, and to be able to
revert them if subsequent stages of the process fail.

Supporting git (or rather, any type of vcs) will require some alternative
light-weight tracking of changes. This could just be creating an external
git directory and using that to track the changes.