Control: retitle -1 consider renaming convert-from-gbp
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream
fails with "uninitialized value""):
> 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.
I am currently inclined to rename this to
convert-from-unpatched
or something, but I would like to hear Sean's opinion.
> > 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.
Right. I am going to treat this bug as a request to rename the
command.
Ian.
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