Xiyue Deng writes ("Bug#1088327: dgit: Add `--allow-unrelated-histories' when
running `git merge' in dgit pull"):
> When a main repository is never used with dgit, the git history is
> unrelated to the dgit branch, and running `dgit pull' will fail because
> of this.
Right.
> As `dgit pull' uses `git merge' underneath, passing
> `--allow-unrelated-histories' will make `dgit pull' easier to use in
> such cases.
I think it likely that passing
--git:--allow-unrelated-histories
will work. But we should probably have a similarly named option in
dgit itself.
Regards,
Ian.
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