Johannes Schauer writes ("Re: Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream
fails with "uninitialized value""):
> I was reading the dgit-maint-debrebase man page wrongly. Here is where I
> tripped:
Thanks for that very helpful explanation.
I think you've probably figured this out now, but in your situation
git-debrebse convert-from-gbp will do what you need.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that that subcommand needs to be
renamed, in addition to improving the docs.
> Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-08-04 18:15:47)
> > This error message is fixed in git but not in 6.4.
> > My current branch says this instead:
> >
> > git-debrebase: error: found unprocessable commit, cannot cope; bare
> > dgit dsc import: (commit d3481fe48afe150f38f331048abe6452b8389723)
> > (d.0x30 0x32)
> >
> > Related UI bugs are:
> >
> > #905005 Want better user hinting for unprocessable commits
> > #905279 Suggest `dgit convert-from-dgit-view` sometimes
>
> Okay, that would tell me that it cannot cope with a commit that was created by
> dgit very early on in my git history. From this error message I would still
> not
> know what to do next.
Indeed. Hence, in particular, #905005.
Ian.
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