Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.37 Severity: wishlist `gbp pq export` always passes `--no-renames` to git: <https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/commit/762ebe190b3a48df20f0b4bdce399819db65ff89>
This causes patches involving renames to be large, difficult to review, and difficult for devs that don't use gbp to refresh against a newer upstream version. Partial output from `gbp pq --verbose export`: gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=format:%an%x00%ae%x00%ad%x00%cn%x00%ce%x00%cd%x00%s%x00%f%x00%b%x00', '-z', '--date=raw', '--no-renames', '--name-status', '--no-show-signature', '78917bdfa9d4e53c12cde57760e2f0f3399827bc'] gbp:debug: ['git', '-c', 'core.abbrev=7', '-c', 'diff.noprefix=false', 'diff', '-p', '--no-ext-diff', '--stat=80', '--summary', '--text', '--ignore-submodules=all', '--no-renames', '78917bdfa9d4e53c12cde57760e2f0f3399827bc^!', '--', '.'] The quilt utility wraps patch, and GNU patch has supported Git's diff features such as renames and copies since 2.7, released Sep 2012: <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/NEWS?h=v2.7#n6> It would be nice to replace `--no-renames` with `-C` so that both renames and copies are detected. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.25.5 ii git 1:2.47.2-0.1 ii man-db 2.13.0-1 ii python3 3.13.2-2 ii python3-dateutil 2.9.0-3 ii python3-yaml 6.0.2-1+b2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.24 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii pbuilder 0.231.1 ii pristine-tar 1.50+nmu2 ii python3-requests 2.32.3+dfsg-4 ii sbuild 0.88.5 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python3-notify2 <none> ii sudo 1.9.16p2-1 ii unzip 6.0-29 -- no debconf information
