Re: git tooling to handle files-excluded while preserving upstream history

Hello, On Tue 16 Jul 2024 at 03:28pm +02, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Right, thanks for the link. That certainly is one angle of attack and I > hope someone does tackle it given how popular gbp is, but it's not the only > game in town. > > Personally I'm moving away from gbp toward the dgit patches-ap

Re: git tooling to handle files-excluded while preserving upstream history

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 16/07/24 11:36, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > since this came up in #d-mentors recently: is anyone working on nicer > > tooling in the vein of gbp-import-ref but with the ability to handle > > Files-Excluded like mk-origtargz? > > B

Re: git tooling to handle files-excluded while preserving upstream history

On 16/07/24 11:36, Daniel Gröber wrote: since this came up in #d-mentors recently: is anyone working on nicer tooling in the vein of gbp-import-ref but with the ability to handle Files-Excluded like mk-origtargz? Because having DFSG-clean "debian" branches is (at the moment) a nice-to-have fea

git tooling to handle files-excluded while preserving upstream history

Hi d-devel, since this came up in #d-mentors recently: is anyone working on nicer tooling in the vein of gbp-import-ref but with the ability to handle Files-Excluded like mk-origtargz? Some packages are starting to resort to hacks: https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/mdBook/-/blob/debian/latest/de