Hi Sebastiaan, On 05/09/18 09:05, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 9/4/18 8:59 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: >> On 04/09/18 20:13, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi Alec, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 06:25:29PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: >>>>> I started using >>>>> >>>>> opts="mode=git,pretty=0.0+git%cd.%h" >>>> >>>> Have you got a more complete example? Or just a pointer to the actual >>>> project(s)? >>> >>> The first package I was using mode=git was >>> >>> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libsmithwaterman >>> >>> and I admit if I'm switching a package to this mode I'm always sneaking >>> into this. >> >> Thanks - I have tested and it works. >> >> But, I stumble on the line endings, the first thing failing is the >> patches. And we cannot possibly have patches with dos crlf. > > Why not? > > quilt doesn't care about the line endings of files it patches.
I just foresee all sorts of trouble walking this path. On linux, text files (even diffs) are supposed to use lf. The question becomes what is the lesser evil: using a get-orig-source to retrieve the sources, or messing with crlf patches and who-knows-what with crlf sources. My opinion should be clear from how I phrase this question ;) That said, using the watch file and rework get-orig-source to use uscan to download the sources is a nobrainer. Cheers! --alec
